The Diplomat. Madrid
Yesterday, the Cabinet approved asking Mexico for the extradition of the ETA member Hilario Urbizu San Román, alias “Escopeta” (shotgun), and Switzerland for that of the also ETA member Miren Nekane Txapartegi Nieves.
Urbizu, who is under arrest in Mexico as a result of an operation coordinated between the Mexican Civil Guard, Federal Police and Attorney General’s Office, has been charged for murder and membership of an armed group, regarding the murder, in Alsasua, of a retired civil guard in 1980. For Txapartegi Nieves, they ask for extradition to Switzerland, where she has been located, with the objective of serving a prison sentence of six years and nine months due to a crime of collaboration with a terrorist organization.