Overview

• Judge Francisco de Jorge took videoconference statements from five former ETA leaders, who denied responsibility or exercised their right to remain silent.
• The five questioned while free were Ignacio Miguel Gracia Arregui (Iñaki de Rentería), Miguel Albisu Iriarte (Mikel Antza), Asier Oyarzabal, Vicente Goicoechea and Ramón Sagarzazu.
• The judge asked Sagarzazu’s defense to file a French ruling on his prior conviction for membership, which he cited to contest claims he held a leadership role.
• Hearings for five imprisoned suspects — Javier García Gaztelu (Txapote), Juan Antonio Olarra (Juanvi), Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas (Gadafi), Ainhoa Múgica and María Soledad Iparraguirre (Anboto) — were suspended to arrange in‑prison testimony.
• The investigation proceeds under a complaint from Dignidad y Justicia invoking Spanish Supreme Court doctrine on mediate authorship to assess leadership responsibility for the 2000 killing of PP councillor Jesús María Pedrosa.