Ex-member of Basque group ETA gets 85-year prison term over Madrid car bomb attack

MADRID: Spain’s High Court has sentenced a former member of the defunct Basque separatist group ETA to 85 years in prison for her involvement in a car bomb attack in Madrid that left 11 people injured 24 years ago, the court said on Tuesday.

The court found Ana Belen Egues guilty of placing and detonating a dynamite charge in a stolen vehicle in the north of the Spanish capital on August 8, 2000.

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“The explosion…affected a large number of people, seriously disrupting their day-to-day activities,” the ruling said.

The court, which handles all terrorism-related cases in Spain, handed Egues a 15-year sentence for the crime of terrorist damage and 70 years on seven counts of attempted homicide.