THE Spanish prosecutors asked for 51 years in prison for the leaders of the terrorist resistance group Galega, which managed to achieve independence for Galicia and a part of northern Portugal.

According to the Public Ministry, Antón García Matos (“Toninho”) and Assunção Losada Camba, detained in 2019 in Vigo, “justify the use of violence against people and property as the only means of achieving their goals”.

Prosecutors are also asking for 12 years in prison for two other members of this terrorist organization, who will go on trial this Monday.

In 2015, a police operation was carried out to dismantle the organization, but Antón García Matos and November, Losada Camba ended up being released, during which time he was willing to flee to Portugal.

In 2020, the Portuguese Judiciary Police deactivated, in Coimbra, a logistical base of the independence group, where it seized “an important” collection of material used in the organization’s activities.

“This independent group was responsible, between 2005 and 2011, for more than 35 attacks with explosives, in different areas of Spain”, informed the PJ at the time.

As the group of the group cause material damage to public and private buildings, such as political party headquarters and identical bank branches, various social actions of great alarm according to the source.

The Galician Resistance, in 2014, was considered by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice a terrorist group.

Since 2006, the organization’s leaders have been living in hiding, having been arrested by the Spanish authorities in June 2019.

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