The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Spain should pay compensation to two convicts for the attack in the Madrid airport in 2006. This is reported by tvnet. lv with reference to The Local.

According to the ECHR verdict, Igor Porto and Martin Sarasola, members of the Basque radical left-nationalist organization ETA, experienced "inhuman and degrading treatment" after their arrest in 2008. The men claimed that after being detained they were beaten by members of the Civil Guard. After that Porto was even hospitalized, he spent five days in the hospital.

In 2010, one of the Spanish courts found the four guards guilty of torture, but a year later the Supreme Court quashed the verdict. According to the resolution, it was not proven that the men were injured after being detained. As a result, Porto and Sarasola appealed to the ECHR. He satisfied their demands in part.

According to the verdict, neither local authorities nor the government provided any convincing arguments that could explain the injuries of the applicants.

At the same time, treatment with men, although inhuman, can not be called torture, the ECHR pointed out.. As a result, Porto must pay 30 thousand euros, and Sarasol - 20 thousand.

Currently, both men are serving a life sentence for the act of terrorism. The explosion at the five-story parking of Madrid Barajas Airport thundered on December 30, 2006. Despite the fact that ETA in advance warned of the planned terrorist attack, two people were killed, another 50 were injured.