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Basque prisoner Didier Aguerre is released after 20 years
  • He was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to eighteen years in prison for a crime of connection with ETA in the family sphere.
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The Pagolés Didier Aguerre was released from Lannemencontran prison (Occitania) on 24 June, after 20 years in prison. He was arrested in Saint-Étienne on 23 September 2001, charged with a crime of integration into a terrorist organisation. He was tried in 2006 with 14 others and sentenced to eighteen years in prison by French justice.

Aguerre was arrested for the first time in 1997, accused of participating in the attacks on the police stations of Senpere and Irisarri in the Belgian capital. He was then released on probation, but he did not appear in the case. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

Two prisoners from Ipar Euskal Herria are imprisoned in France

Kazeta.eus According to the media, following the release of Lorentxa Beyrie and Didier Aguerre, two Basque prisoners from Iparralde remain in French state jails: Jakes Esnal and Ion Kepa Parot in Muret. Bake Bidea has organised a march for 10 July to demand the freedoms of Ion and Unai Parot and Jakes Esnal, as well as to denounce the legal persecution suffered by all Basque prisoners.