Participation by Collaboration in the Crime of Terrorism

The author makes clear that he personally does not share the widespread idea that any idea is legitimate if it is defended by democratic methods. Nor that every idea is legitimate even if defended democratically, nor that a legitimate idea ceases to be so if defended through criminal means. But the ethical plane, he says, does not necessarily have to coincide with that of the criminal norm. In any case, it must be analyzed that what is sanctioned in cases of terrorism is not ideological adherence but placing resources at the disposal of an armed organization so that it may continue pursuing those aims precisely through violence, that is, through terror and death, when in a constitutional state governed by the rule of law, as we find ourselves, peaceful and democratic channels exist for pursuing any political objective. We therefore understand collaboration, from an objective point of view, as an act that entails the performance of concrete acts of assistance to the activities of the armed group or its members. (Excerpt from the presentation).