Andoain (Gipuzkoa) (EFE) from this Gipuzkoan town, Joseba Pagazaurtundua, assassinated by ETA twenty years ago.
«In the Basque Country, in Navarra and in Spanish public opinion, the focus is on what interests Arnaldo Otegi (EH Bildu): the prisoners and the gradual whitening of their past and their acronyms, despite the obvious and objective deficits to deserve it », explained Pagazaurtundua during this civic act, in which the philosopher Fernando Savater and the representative of the collective I not Natalia Merino.
«There is not a scandal in all of Spain every day, when the ETA members are treated as heroes for having been and that is taught to a part of the Basque and Navarrese boys and girls»
“There is not a scandal in all of Spain every day, when the ETA members are treated as heroes for having been and that is taught to a part of the Basque and Navarrese boys and girls,” lamented the also MEP of Ciudadanos.
Josu Ternera
He has also criticized those who “use extraordinary resources to whitewash the image in France” of former ETA leader José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, Josu Ternera, in order to “avoid trials that could have symbolic and historical repercussions.” “Specifically the trial for the crime against humanity, already instructed to the head of ETA and other little bosses,” he said.
«Because it is not going to be that the industrial background of terror is known, it is not going to be that international public opinion finds out its true background and above all so that the polarization of Spanish public opinion already gives them the favor of almost the half the population,” he added.
“Poster-terrorism should force us to face the big questions of political, not just judicial, responsibilities for the industrial production of terror,” Pagazaurtunda insisted.
accumulated impunity
After reiterating the need to “face the issue of accumulated impunity” after “almost four hundred murders without justice”, he stressed the importance of transmitting to new generations “a thorough knowledge of the past”.
“There has not been a single time in which a prisoner – from ETA – has collaborated with justice to solve a case” and “they have not wanted to indicate where the bodies of the people they murdered and made disappear are,” warned Pagazaurtundua. , who has also explained that at the time “Arnaldo Otegi did not accept any ethical ground” in the Basque Parliament and “however, the pact with them has been normalized.”
Roadmap
A situation that, in his opinion, “intoxicates Basque politics, but above all Spanish politics, because the road map is ‘prisoners for budgets'”, something for which, as he commented, “some fringes are still missing in the Criminal Code or in the laws that prevent the Basque Government from putting bracelets on all prisoners for ‘compliment y mente’”.
Estíbaliz Garmendia, Joseba’s widow, and several of her relatives have also attended the act that, according to Pagazaurtundua has revealed, could be the last of these characteristics that the family carries out after twenty years of celebrating it.
At the end of the tribute, the friends of Pagazaurtundua have removed the public mailbox that they placed in Andoain at the time to collect citizen complaints related to terrorist violence and that will soon be installed in the Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria.
The act in memory of Joseba Pagazaurtundua took place just one day after the tribute yesterday in San Sebastián to the historic socialist leader assassinated 27 years ago by ETA, Fernando Múgica.
