For the Board, Del Olmo sacrificed the freedom of the press to prevent the alleged risk of repeat criminal, but understood that the judge could have done it “by using alternative possibilities of precautionary action would not involve the disruption of information activity.”
“Especially,” adds the sentence, when the practical test ruled out that the newspaper was a tool for committing crimes or support of any criminal activity “of ETA.
The court said that the process was opened in 2001 following a complaint by the Prosecutor, but in 2006 dropped charges against the view that the investigation yielded no data to argue that “Egunkaria” is an instrument of ETA.
