Enrique Rodríguez Galindo
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Enrique Rodríguez Galindo | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Enrique Rodríguez Galindo |
| Born | 5 February 1939 Granada, Spain |
| Died | 13 February 2021 (aged 82) Zaragoza, Spain |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Spain |
| Branch | Spanish Civil Guard |
| Years of service | 1958–2002 |
| Rank | Lieutenant (1965–1971) Captain (1971–1980) Commanding officer (1980–1988) Lieutenant colonel (1988–1992) Colonel (1992–1995) Brigadier general (1995–2002) |
| Awards | Cross of Naval Merit Order of Civil Merit Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild Cross of Military Merit |
Enrique Rodríguez Galindo (5 February 1939 – 13 February 2021) was a Spanish brigadier general of the Civil Guard, who was sentenced to 71 years in prison in 2000 for the kidnapping and murder of the alleged ETA members José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala in the so-called Antiterrorist Liberation Groups case.
Enrique Rodriguez Galindo was born on 5 February 1939 in Granada, Andalusia, Spain, to a non-commissioned officer in the Civil Guard. In 1958, he entered the Military Academy of the Civil Guard of Úbeda, Province of Jaén. After graduating second in his cohort, he joined the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, where he graduated as a lieutenant in 1965.[1]
Upon graduation, Galindo went through various assignments at various localities, first at Cantavieja, then at the former Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea. Subsequently, he was assigned to the now defunct Traffic Subsector of Guipúzcoa, in San Sebastián.[2]
On 25 May 1980, after having obtained the job of commander, he was required to find out if he was a volunteer to fill a vacancy in the San Sebastián Command – Intxaurrondo Barracks, then in full growth and expansion.[3][failed verification]
After the departure of the various chiefs and second chiefs of the command, he was assuming the competences and sometimes carrying out the accidental or interim leadership of the Intxaurrondo Command, enhancing the work of the Information Service, beginning to achieve results – detention of different commands legal and released, both from the Autonomous Anticapitalist Commandos, as well as from ETA political-military and ETA.[citation needed] During that time, he participated in the arrest of Jesús María Zabarte, and José Antonio López Ruiz alias Kubati, both operations, thanks to the information obtained through the surveillance of the targets.[4][failed verification]
From this time until his promotion to general in 1995, highlights the arrest on 29 March 1992 of the leadership of ETA in the French town of Bidart, in the Atlantic Pyrenees, known colloquially as «Collective Artapalo ».[5]
The government promoted Galindo to brigadier general on 4 August 1995.[6]
He was also the architect and the person who mediated negotiations for different peace talks that the different socialist governments of the 1980s held with the ETA leadership. First through mediators in the Basque Country and later in direct conversations with Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, in the mid-1980s, in Andorra.[7]
In 2006 he presented a book in which he reviews his entire biography, entitled My life against ETA .[8]
