Carlos García Juliá sentenced to 193 years in prison for the massacre of Atocha shortly after the end of the franco dictatorship, a fugitive since 1994, is closer than ever before to return to Spain to fulfill what you subtract penalty. The former militant right-wing has exhausted all his judicial appeals in Brazil to avoid being extradited to Spain. Your delivery is now pending only the signing of the brazilian president, the right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, as explained to this newspaper his defense attorney, Daniel Mourad Majzoub, this Friday.

The Brazilian Supreme Court authorized initially the extradition last August, but the prisoner filed several appeals that were rejected until the 26 of December he closed the tour by the court that a case in this country, as confirmed by a spokesman.

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The spaniard was arrested 13 months ago in São Paulo, after a leak of decades that took him also to Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela. The condemned, who had perpetrated the massacre of Atocha with the other ultra at the age of 24, has almost 70. It is claimed to meet 3.855 days remaining on the 30-year maximum sentence which was imposed in the eighties by killing five people in a firm of labor lawyers Madrid, attempt to murder four more and by the possession of weapons. It was a militant of the formation of the far-right New Force. When he was arrested, in December 2018, García Juliá lived in São Paulo with legal residence under a false identity is venezuelan and worked as a driver for Uber. You have a partner and a child, according to Mourad.

The defense attorney explains that the signature of the president Bolsonaro is not a simple process and recalls the case of the ultra-left Cesare Battisti, who after being convicted of four murders in the sixties, sought refuge in Brazil. The then president Lula da Silva refused to surrender him to Italy. It is a case widely publicized here in Brazil that Bolsonaro has been used repeatedly to accuse Lula and the Workers Party of protecting the terrorists. Mourad slides that Bolsonaro “is a military right wing extremist”.

After the signature of the president, Brazil has 60 days to deliver a prisoner to Spain. Garcia Julia is imprisoned since his arrest in a wing of the superintendence of the police of São Paulo intended for the prisoners engaged in processes of extradition.

“The strategy from the beginning was to gain time,” explains the lawyer Mourad, who holds that for every day that your client spends in jail in Brazil -or when he was jailed in Bolivia for a drug offence - is computed as three days worth in Spain. Ensures that these accounts rely on the precedent of the case of Dioni, a famous robber of banks that also took refuge in the south american giant.

The militant far-right, was convicted in Spain in 1980 for having been one of the material authors of the massacre in which, in 1977, two years after the death of Franco, were shot and killed three lawyers, a Law student and a clerk in Madrid. The firm was in the central calle Atocha.

The condemned, who served only 14 years in prison, was a fugitive from the decade of the nineties, when he got the parole and fled to Latin America, where he lost the track until he was arrested in December of 2018.

the murderer of The lawyers of Atocha has been all year to litigate before the Supreme Court of Brazil to try to prevent their delivery to Spain, where, according to the accounts which makes his counsel, would have already met the day that we were sad when he fled from Spain and should be released.

Date Of Update: 03 January 2020, 18:00