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Prisoner threatens to 'skin judge alive'
A Basque separatist prisoner on trial for threatening to kill a judge told the presiding judge that he would shoot him and "skin him alive," risking yet another jail sentence.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:00 September 10, 2006
Madrid: A Basque separatist prisoner on trial for threatening to kill a judge told the presiding judge that he would shoot him and "skin him alive," risking yet another jail sentence.
Ignacio Javier Bilbao Goikoetxea, a convicted murderer and member of armed separatist group ETA, kicked the dock's bullet-proof screen and launched a torrent of abuse at judge Alfonso Guevara and Baltasar Garzon, the judge he had threatened at a previous trial who was appearing as a witness.
"If you're a man, come here ... I'm going to skin you alive. Come here if you've got the courage... I look forward to shooting you seven times when I get my hands on you," the shaven-headed Bilbao Goikoetxea told Guevara in the Madrid courtroom.
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