Spain releases terrorist sentenced to 3,000 years in prison
One of the most notorious militants of the Basque terrorist organization ETA, Santi Potros, who was previously sentenced by a Spanish court to nearly 3,000 years in prison, has been released from prison after serving a total of nearly 31 years.
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| Basque terrorist organization ETA. Photo: AP |
On the morning of August 5, Santi Potros (real name Santiago Arrospide Sarasola) left Topas prison (Salamanca). Spanish state television broadcast footage of Santi Potros leaving the prison's stone walls.
Santi Potros was involved in organizing 40 terrorist attacks, including the bloodiest terrorist attack in the country's history, which took place in June 1987 at the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona, which claimed 21 lives.
In total, Potros, 70, has spent 31 years behind bars, 13 of them in France and 18 in Spain. He committed his first crime in June 1980, the murder of a policeman in Pamplona.
The Association for Victims of Terrorism (AVT) has condemned the release of the criminal.
