La Tigresa,"The Tigress", Idoia Lopez Riano one of the most murderous and daring terrorists in the history of modern Spain, who was sentenced to 2000 years in jail for a series of murderous acts, was surprisingly released from jail today.
The Tigress was active between 1984-1986 and joined the Basque underground group ETA two years earlier, when she was 18. She was described as "especially beautiful, wild, cold and calculated but unpredictable and uncontrollable." She was sent as a femme fatalle against Spanish security officers and succeeded in eliminating various officers as well as drug dealers and others. After a Madrid car bomb killed 12 people, Lopez Riano escaped to Algeria and Southern France where she was captured in 1994 and brought to justice in 2001.
Later after the Basque terrorists laid down their arms, the Spanish adopted a more lenient policy towards imprisoned terrorists who declared that they would eschew violence. Riano studied journalism in jail, married, divorced and married again to another prisoner accused of murder.
Eventually she sat just 23 years in jail, a year for every person she murdered.