Felipe González acknowledges that he still doubts that not ordering the murder of ETA leaders was a good decision

Former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González has stated that he still has doubts today that he did not orderthe assassination of ETA leaders in the early 090s.

In the documentary "La última llamada" by Movistar Plus+, González has stated that on one occasion he was informed "very directly" that the leadership of the group was meeting in the south of France "planning attacks".

He was informed that ETA leaders were "properly placed and placed" in a house and could even be "killed," according to the head of government from 1982 to 1996.

He says he doubted all the implications of such an act and refused to intervene, which he did in France. "33 years later I thought again, and again I doubt whether I did it right or wrong," he says.

The former PSOE Secretary-General has admitted that at that time he had doubts that perhaps "50 or 60 lives" could be saved at a time when a number of attacks were taking place.

"People don't forgive me for hesitating, even some colleagues," he says, but he finally refused to give the order because of the consequences it might have.

This is not the first time that Gonzalez has spoken about this incident, since in 2010, in an interview in the newspaper 'El País', he revealed that he had the opportunity to kill the head of ETA between 1989 and 1990.

At that point, he said , there was no possibilityof arrest, and the only option on the table was to "kill them all together." "The possibility of stopping them was zero, they were outside our territory. And at that time the possibility of the operation being carried out by France was very small," he said in that interview.

JOSE MARIA AZNAR

For his part, former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar has refused to make mistakes about the invasion of Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, arguing that at any given time he acts "for what he knows at the time, not for what he knows afterwards. "Moreover, he has stated that his government" always told the truth "after the attacks of 11 March 2004.

Aznar has also defendedthe 'Azores photo' between George W. Bush, Tony Blair and himself for allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein's regime in March 2003 before invading Iraq.

"At the end there are two kinds of countries or two types of political leaders. Those who turn around the table and see that others decide, or those who sit at the table decide. The consequence of all this is that Spain was sitting at the table where decisions were made," he said. He added that at that moment he defined "the interest of Spain."

Then, after the CIA said it was the wrong analysis, after Bush said it was a mistake , or when he admitted that Blair also made mistakes, Aznar replied, "I didn't. For all these defects are acknowledged in the knowledge of history. "

In this regard, the former President of the Government has stated that he finds "such arguments unnecessary, because we do not judge at any given moment by what he knows afterwards, but by what he knows at that moment".

9/11 ATTACKS

The documentary also recalls the attacks of 11 March and takes up the statements made by the then Minister of the Interior, Angel Acebes. "At that time, the Security Forces had no doubt that ETA was responsible."  "What I want to stress most is that the government told the truth at all times, every minute of the day," says Aznar, to emphasize that "the decision was to hold elections above all else."

JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO

On the other hand, in the section dedicated to former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who was in La Moncloa between 2004 and 2011, another episode related to ETA is being discussed while negotiations were under way between the government and ETA.

At one of these meetings, held in Oslo, Norway, in 2006, the leader of ETA's political apparatus, Francisco Javier López Peña, Thierry, appeared and transferred him to Josu Terne, who had hitherto been in charge of the ETA negotiations.

"A cyclotymic: from saying it's done to saying you're like Hitler, there was no way to talk to him," says the Socialist Jesus Eguiguren, who was sent from the government in that negotiation.

Eguiguren has said that one night Thierry got a rumor that the government wants to break the negotiation and has asked him to telephone Zapatero under the threat of activating bombs in Spain the next day. "He has told me that if the negotiation breaks, Spain will be a Vietnam, "the Basque socialist recalled.

Zapatero recalled that then-Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (who was informed by the Moncloa envoys) called him at one o'clock in the morning and told him that "something is very difficult, very bad,"but that both should not give in to blackmail and "hold on."

"I think it's one of the few nights I've been vacant as President of the Government, not sleeping at all, not a minute," says the former president, who claims he didn't feel calm until 9 a.m. Subsequently, ETA broke the ceasefire on 30 December 2006 with an attack on the T4 at Barajas airport, resulting in two deaths.