By Victor M. Carriba, Prensa Latina,
Madrid : The family of Jose Couso, the Spanish journalist who died five years ago in Iraq by the hands of US soldiers, stated it would keep on struggling for justice to the responsible people for his death.
In statements to Prensa Latina in Madrid Tuesday, Javier Couso, brother of the cameraman died in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 8, 2003, assured the lawyers still count on evidence and tests to present in the judicial process.
A hearing of the Penal Court of the Spanish National Supreme Court revoked a decision from Judge Santiago Pedraz Tuesday.
Judge Pedraz had ordered to process three US soldiers, pointed at as responsible for the death of Jose Couso.
They are Sergeant Thomas Gibson, Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp and Captain Philip Wolford.
After the Tuesday decision, Javier Couso told Prensa Latina his family is still optimistic and will continue the struggle in Spain without disregarding the possibility to do it abroad, but he said there are judges in Spain who would like to investigate what happened on April 8, 2003 in Baghdad.
He said they will appeal before the Spanish Supreme Court as a first step, and the lawyers of the family said the prosecutor’s arguments to revoke the judicial process against the US soldiers had no fundament.
The lawyers said it is proved that Couso died during an indiscriminate attack, and the authors had an absolute knowledge they were shooting at a hotel dwelled by journalists and internationally protected.
However, the prosecutor said existing signs were not enough to keep the process going on, and the murder of Couso was accidental.