Deputy Convicted for Justifying Terrorism
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Original in Spanish
According to El Mundo, the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country sentenced Arnaldo Otegi to fifteen months in prison for having glorified terrorist actions of ETA. The conviction is based on remarks that Otegi, a deputy in the Basque Parliament, made in 2001 at the funeral of a young terrorist woman who died when the bomb she herself was preparing went off.
I wish this sentence, more than well deserved, would deter all those who support and justify terrorist actions in every part of the world. It would be just to send to prison all those who resort to excessive and unjustified violence against innocent people, not only through terrorism, but also through war, torture and repression, to obtain political gain and economic profit, without caring about the suffering of the innocent.