Spanish newspaper El Mundo has released today a reportage on Luis Morcillo, a former GAL member who claims that he murdered Santi Brouard, a Basque paedriatician and former head of the separatist party Herri Batasuna, on 20 November 1984. He had never been convicted for this crime, after a court in Bizkaia issued a lawsuit in which he was absolved due to the lack of proofs. So the assassination has gone and will go unpunished due to a legal principle which establishes that either crime cannot be prosecuted twice.
According to his own statement, Morcillo commited the murder when Brouard was leaving his consulting room in Bilbao. He and Ramón López Ocaña shot the doctor twice and then finished off him while lying on the floor. After that, Luis and Ramón ran away from there and left the gun in the stairwell. The so-called GAL terrorist group claimed the attack hours later. After that, Morcillo was helped to flee Spain and headed Venezuela and Colombia, where he worked as a member of security staff of the chief of Cali drug cartel.
The single reason for this assassination was that Brouard was a member of Herri Batasuna, a Basque separatist and socialist party. In fact, he was imprisoned in 1983 for allegedly singing the Basque fighters' song Eusko Gudariak during a visit of the king of Spain. He even was aware that State-terrorist groups like GAL had targeted him because of his political activities but decided not to stop his work as a doctor neither to flee the Basque Country.
The most astonishing fact of this sort of crime is that it was entirely politically motivated. Furthermore, it counted with the authorization of the Spanish Interior Ministry. In fact, both López Ocaña and Morcillo were paid about €45,000 for the attack. Moreover, the person who ordered the murder was Rafael Masa, commander of the Spanish police Guardia Civil at the time. He was likely to have acted under instructions of Julián Sancristóbal, a former director of State Security. So that, Spanish authorities knew and even encouraged the murder, which can be qualified as a State crime.
The death of Santi Brouard did not happen neither in a country like China nor in an African State but in Spain. Despite the efforts to banish either relationship between GAL and the State, the truth is that any crime committed by the terrorist organization could not have taken place without the support of the authorities. Furthermore, only a few people have ever been sentenced for State-related violence. Thus it is clear that those actions had a political motivation: to exterminate Basque separatism through a sort of "dirty war", using the crimes committed by terrorist group ETA as a justification. They were deployed together with tortures at Basque and Spanish prisons. Most of these actions have never been investigated nor condemned.
According to his own statement, Morcillo commited the murder when Brouard was leaving his consulting room in Bilbao. He and Ramón López Ocaña shot the doctor twice and then finished off him while lying on the floor. After that, Luis and Ramón ran away from there and left the gun in the stairwell. The so-called GAL terrorist group claimed the attack hours later. After that, Morcillo was helped to flee Spain and headed Venezuela and Colombia, where he worked as a member of security staff of the chief of Cali drug cartel.
The single reason for this assassination was that Brouard was a member of Herri Batasuna, a Basque separatist and socialist party. In fact, he was imprisoned in 1983 for allegedly singing the Basque fighters' song Eusko Gudariak during a visit of the king of Spain. He even was aware that State-terrorist groups like GAL had targeted him because of his political activities but decided not to stop his work as a doctor neither to flee the Basque Country.
The most astonishing fact of this sort of crime is that it was entirely politically motivated. Furthermore, it counted with the authorization of the Spanish Interior Ministry. In fact, both López Ocaña and Morcillo were paid about €45,000 for the attack. Moreover, the person who ordered the murder was Rafael Masa, commander of the Spanish police Guardia Civil at the time. He was likely to have acted under instructions of Julián Sancristóbal, a former director of State Security. So that, Spanish authorities knew and even encouraged the murder, which can be qualified as a State crime.
The death of Santi Brouard did not happen neither in a country like China nor in an African State but in Spain. Despite the efforts to banish either relationship between GAL and the State, the truth is that any crime committed by the terrorist organization could not have taken place without the support of the authorities. Furthermore, only a few people have ever been sentenced for State-related violence. Thus it is clear that those actions had a political motivation: to exterminate Basque separatism through a sort of "dirty war", using the crimes committed by terrorist group ETA as a justification. They were deployed together with tortures at Basque and Spanish prisons. Most of these actions have never been investigated nor condemned.
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