Madrid

Terrorist freed: Spain’s most notorious terrorist was released from jail this week, prompting angry demonstrations across the country. Iñaki de Juana Chaos was sentenced to 3,000 years in prison for killing 25 people in the 1980s, while he was a member of the Basque separatist group ETA. But Spanish parole laws mandated that he be freed after just 21 years. De Juana has never expressed remorse; in a letter written after one killing, he said of the victims: “Their tears are our smiles, and in the end we will roar with laughter.” At a welcome-home ceremony in San Sebstián this week, de Juana called a late leader of ETA a “great man.” A Spanish judge is already looking into whether de Juana can be charged with a new crime, “praising terrorism,” for that statement.

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