"The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered France to pay a former military chief of the ETA militant group 10,000 in compensation for failing to give adequate medical treatment. Juan Ibon Fernandez Iradi, a Spanish national, is serving a 30-year jail term for shooting a gendarme but has been suffering from multiple sclerosis that was diagnosed in 2011. His lawyers argued that after the diagnosis, Fernandez Iradi's care was late and inadequate, particularly the psychological support, specialist consultations, physiotherapy and other treatment."
"Now aged 54, he had sought 100,000 in damages but the Strasbourg-based court awarded him 10,000 with 11,840 in legal fees. Fernandez Iradi was first detained in 2002, a year after a French gendarme was wounded while making a routine traffic check. Between 2008 and 2009, French courts jailed him for prison terms of 30, 15 and 30 years on various terrorism charges. In 2012 his sentences were reduced to the statutory maximum of 30 years in jail."
European Court of Human Rights ordered France to pay Juan Ibon Fernandez Iradi 10,000 for failing to provide adequate medical treatment. Fernandez Iradi, a Spanish national and former ETA military chief, is serving a 30-year term for shooting a gendarme. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2011 and lawyers argued that post-diagnosis care was late and inadequate, lacking psychological support, specialist consultations and physiotherapy. He was first detained in 2002; multiple terrorism convictions were later reduced to a 30-year statutory maximum in 2012. He is currently detained in San Sebastian in Spain's Basque region.
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