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Spain court convicts 3 ETA members of airport bomb

21 May 2010 22:26 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Three members of Basque separatist group ETA were convicted Friday of detonating a car bomb at Madrid airport in 2006 that killed two Ecuadorians, a court statement said, APA reports quoting â€œReutersâ€.
Igor Portu, Martin Sarasola and Mikel San Sebastian were found guilty of the two murders, 48 attempted murders and terrorist damage, and were sentenced to a total of 1,040 years each. The lengthy sentences are largely symbolic as the maximum prison sentence for terrorism in Spain is 40 years.
As a result of the bombing, the Spanish Socialist government called off the peace process that had started after ETA announced a "permanent ceasefire" in March 2006.
The men will also each have to pay compensation of 1.2 million euros ($1.50 million) to the families of the Ecuadorians.
ETA claimed responsibility for the bomb which exploded in the car park of Terminal 4 of Madrid Barajas airport on December 30 2006, but said it had not intended to kill anyone.