Why put in a feeding tube? After all, he is only killing himself.

An Eta prisoner on hunger strike has ripped out his feeding tube, sparking fears that he is close to death after 112 days without eating.

The Spanish prison service said that Iñaki de Juana Chaos, the Basque separatist leader convicted of killing 25 people, mainly soldiers and policemen, in the 1980s, had received no nutrients since Friday. A lawyer who spoke to de Juana said that he had pulled out the tube keeping him alive, apparently furious with media reports that he had abandoned his protest.

The case has exposed the deep divisions within Spain and placed the Socialist Government in an excruciating dilemma. More than 75,000 people rallied in Madrid on Saturday, calling on the Government not to free de Juana despite a recent Supreme Court judgment making him eligible for parole.

The only tragedy here is that the Spanish government didnÂ’t send this mutt to Hell years ago, due to Euro-weenie opposition to the death penalty. Let him get there of his own accord, the sooner the better.

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