Iruña de Oca (Álava) (EFE).- The president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, has considered that after the end of the dispersal of the ETA prisoners “several steps are missing”, among which he has cited the recognition of the “unfair damage caused” by these prisoners and their social and political environment before the victims and society.
Ortuzar made these statements before speaking in an electoral act in the Alava town of Iruña de Oca, the day after Penitentiary Institutions agreed to transfer five ETA members to prisons in the Basque Country, the last inmates of the terrorist band who remained far away of the Basque Country and Navarre.
He reiterated that for the PNV the end of the dispersion that “no longer made any sense” is positive and that therefore he has considered one more “important step towards coexistence in this country.”
“Little by little we are closing the dark past of terrorism and violence,” stressed Ortuzar, who nevertheless said that “several steps” are still missing.
Among them, he has urged the ETA prisoners and their social and political environment to recognize “the unjust damage caused” to the victims and society because this gesture would mean “a very important step towards coexistence among Basques and for coexistence of Euskadi with the rest of the world”.