Itoiz Dam — new prisoner

Long term sup­port­ers of ELP will be aware of the Itoiz dam action in Spain, where back in the late 1990s anony­mous eco-activists sab­o­taged the con­struc­tion site of the con­tro­ver­sial Itoiz dam caus­ing so much dam­age the con­struc­tion was delayed by over a year. One of the things the activists did was cut the cab­bles of the machines which took the dam wall blocks to the top of the dam.

Long term sup­port­ers of ELP will be aware of the Itoiz dam action in Spain, where back in the late 1990s anony­mous eco-activists sab­o­taged the con­struc­tion site of the con­tro­ver­sial Itoiz dam caus­ing so much dam­age the con­struc­tion was delayed by over a year. One of the things the activists did was cut the cab­bles of the machines which took the dam wall blocks to the top of the dam.

As ELP report­ed at the time, fol­low­ing the action, eight men, who were all linked to a law­ful cam­paign against the con­struc­tion, were accused of involve­ment in this action. Despite being inno­cent all eight feared they would­n’t get a fair tri­al so all eight went under­ground. How­ev­er despite not hav­ing their sus­pects in deten­tion that did­n’t stop the Span­ish police
who held a tri­al for the eight men in their abscense. And sur­pris­ing­ly enough, as the eight weren’t there to explain their inno­cence, all eight were found guilty and sen­tenced to four years and 10 months impris­on­ment.

As ELP sup­port­ers will be aware, over the fol­low­ing years a small num­ber of the Itoiz Dam sus­pects have been caught by the police and thrown into prison.

The lat­est Itoiz Dam sus­pect to be cap­tured is JULIO VILLANUEVA. He was arrest­ed ten days ago on the 17th of August 2007.

Please send urgent let­ters of sup­port to:

JULIO VILLANUEVA
C.P. PRISION DE PAMPLONA
31080 IRUNA (NAVARRA)
SPAIN