These five people who have been tortured have been in Madrid on Wednesday and a letter to the current minister has been recorded in the register of the Minister of the Interior, according to the journalist of Naiz Martxelo Díaz. They asked Fernando Grande-Marlaska "if he knew about the cruel, cruel and humiliating treatment they were suffering while they were in the hands of the police."

In 2011, the Civil Guard arrested Patxi Arratibel, Iñigo González, Iker Moreno, Gorka Zabala, Xabier Beortegi and Gorka Mayo on the orders of Judge Grande-Marlaska. Five of them reported torture (the only one who did not report torture was Gorka Mayo) and, in particular, Iñigo González reported having suffered blows, methods such as the bag and simulations of rape.

The allegations of Arratibel and Beortegi came to Strasbourg, and the Court of Human Rights acknowledged the credibility of the allegations of torture and in both cases condemned Spain for not investigating the allegations. He has now condemned Spain for the third time in this police operation: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today considered that Spain has violated the third article of the European Convention and that it has not properly investigated the torture reported by González.

The Spanish State must compensate González with 20,000 euros for "moral damages" within three months.

The journalist Joxerra Senar reported in the Berria newspaper the context of those arrests, as well as the impact on the trial of the arrival of the allegations of torture at the Court in Strasbourg: "On the one hand, the case was not brought to a halt, but it was conditioned in part. In April 2016, Strasbourg had already hit the National Court for the first time for not investigating the complaint of Jon Patxi Arratibel. At the trial, the prosecutor finally reached an agreement with the five defendants and did not enter prison,” he added. Although not imputed, Strasbourg gave Beortegi a ruling in November 2016.