Marey case is the name given to the trial for the 1983 kidnapping of Segundo Marey—one of the first victims of the Spanish government's dirty war against ETA—carried out by the so-called Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL).
The officers took him to a cabin in the village of Matienzo, in the province of Cantabria,[2] where he remained locked up for ten days, with his head covered with a hood,[3] until he was released in French territory, three kilometers from the Dantxarinea border crossing.
[5] The Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (GAL)—an organization that had remained unknown until then—claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Segundo Marey in a communiqué written in French that was found in one of his pockets.
His trips to Portugal in 1986, in which he hired those mercenaries, were of an official nature and paid with fondos reservados from the Ministry of the Interior, according to the investigations carried out by Judge Baltasar Garzón.
[7] On 20 September 1991, police officers José Amedo and Michel Domínguez were sentenced to 108 years in prison for six counts of attempted murder, in which they participated as perpetrators by incitement.
[8] In October 1994, Judge Garzón reopened the investigation into the kidnapping of Segundo Marey after Amedo and Domínguez implicated several police commanders and high-ranking officials of the Ministry of the Interior in the actions of the GAL for which they had been convicted.