Publio Cordón murió cuando intentaba huir

Madrid, July 19 (EFE) - Zaragoza businessman Publio Cordón died 15 or 16 days after his kidnapping by GRAPO in the summer of 1995 as a result of injuries sustained when he fell from a window of the two-story house where he was being held in Lyon, France, while attempting to escape. Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz explained at a press conference in Congress the details of the operation that has led to a full clarification of the kidnapping, following the arrest of three people in Cádiz and Seville, as well as the location of the house where Cordón was locked in a "hidden closet locked with a chain" on the second floor. There, the businessman marked "sticks" on the wall, the minister explained, to determine how many days he had been held captive, which suggests that the accident that led to his death occurred after the 15th. www.efe.com