Posted on 10/27/2013 4:24:21 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Inés del Río Prada, of the Basque separatist group Eta, was a member of a unit that killed 24 people, including 12 in a car bombing in the centre of Madrid. Her release earlier this week at the command of the European court of human rights (ECHR), prompted a wave of outrage.
The Spanish courts had little choice but to let Del Río go free. She had been sentenced in 1989 to 3,828 years in total, but because of a peculiarity of Spanish law dating back to 1973, she could serve a maximum of only 30.
Given time off for good behaviour, Del Río should have been released in 2008. But in 2006, when the Spanish courts realised that she and other Eta prisoners would soon be set free, they removed the years off for good behaviour.
Last Monday, the ECHR in Strasbourg declared the ruling illegal, as it had been applied retrospectively to people already behind bars.
The decision to release Del Río was in fact made by a lower chamber of the Strasbourg court, against which Spain appealed. It was that appeal that the ECHR rejected last Monday. The ruling made matters worse for the Spanish government: the court's decision does not just apply to Del Río's case, but to all the pending appeals of long-term prisoners who have been denied the right to release for good behaviour.
This means Spain is going to have to set free scores more convicted Eta terrorists, as well as rapists and murderers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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almost sounds to good to be true.. if you’re a terrorist.. or a loyalist .. or a rapist or murderer.
There’s something funny about EUrope.
Put the families of those that were killed outside the place where they release her, and turn your backs.
The Spanish gov’t should just tell that court to take a hike.
...was a member of a unit that killed 24 people, including 12 in a car bombing in the centre of Madrid. Her release earlier this week at the command of the European court of human rights (ECHR), prompted a wave of outrage.Spain should execute her and the rest of those now up for outright release, and repudiate the EU. Putting a row of poles with the terrorists' heads on top along the mountainous border with France would be a nice touch.
It’s another example of how the European Union is snuffing out the traditional cultures of Europe. Coming to a continent near you.
“It’s another example of how the European Union is snuffing out the traditional cultures of Europe. Coming to a continent near you.”
Low birthrates are snuffing out the traditional cultures of Europe, and the same problem is here already.
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