A total of 191 mobilizations called by the citizen support network for ETA prisoners, Sare, in many other towns in Euskadi, Navarra and the French Basque Country have requested this Saturday the end of the exceptional prison policy for inmates of the terrorist gang and the approach of all of them to prisons of the Basque Autonomous Community. These decentralized mobilizations have replaced the traditional large demonstration that takes place annually in Bilbao after Christmas in favor of the rights of ETA prisoners due to the existing health situation in the Basque Country due to the strong rebound in coronavirus infections.
For this reason, marches have been held in the three Basque capitals and Pamplona and Bayona (France), as well as in other 186 municipalities in the Basque and Navarre geography. The demonstration held in Bilbao was attended by several hundred people who chanted slogans such as “Presoak kalera, amnesty osoa” (prisoners on the street, general amnesty) and “Presoak etxera” (prisoners at home) and representatives of eh Bildu, with her parliamentary spokesperson Maddalen Iriarte at the helm and Catalan sovereignist parties and organizations such as Junts per Catalunya, the CUP and the ANC.
For health reasons, the route and duration of the march that began in the central Plaza de Moyua has also been reduced and, after traveling the first section of Gran Vía, it has concluded in front of the City Hall, where a statement from the organizers. It warns that “we cannot accept and it is difficult for us to believe that, after more than a decade without patent violence, we have to continue claiming something so elemental as the prisoners, who are serving reparatory sentences, are are subjects of rights thus established in international treaties, in the Spanish Constitution and in the laws“.
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The PNV stands out from the Sare marches for ETA prisoners
The formation, which on other occasions has supported these demonstrations with the presence of prominent internal and public officials, has refused to attend this year
Sar has also denounced thate “grade progressions are kept blocked or prison permits are prevented” and that “even when the Treatment Boards of some prisons approve a degree progression or prison permit, the National audience, Through the prosecution, he appealed, reaching the point that some prisoners in the third degree have returned to jail and second degree prison. “” We are not demanding any privilege. We demand justice, only Justice. We are claiming human rights. We are not facing political demands “, they have concluded.
In Vitoria, three columns have converged in the Artium Museum of the Alava capital from where after 5:00 p.m. the march that has run to the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca began. The protesters have marched respecting the security measures against covid-19, masks and safety distance, and throughout the tour they have chanted slogans in favor of the release of ETA prisoners and their approach to prisons in the Basque Country.
In San Sebastian, More than 2,000 people have supported the call for Sare in a demonstration that has been developed by an unusual route, from the Plaza del Centenario, in the Amara neighborhood, to the Boulevard.
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Slogans calling for the transfer of the inmates to Euskadi and others demanding amnesty have been heard throughout the march, to which they have joined, among others, EH Bildu MP Nerea Kortajarena, the spokesperson for this formation in the General Boards of Gipuzkoa, Juan Karlos Izagirre, and the former general secretary of LAB Rafa Díez.
The president of the PP of the Basque Country, Carlos Iturgaiz, has criticized the holding of these demonstrations and has censured that their objective is “take the ETA criminals out onto the streets, without paying for the heinous murders committed by these savages”. “The proetarras of Bildu try to cover their shame by placing on the same scale and equalizing all violence,” he concluded in a message on his social networks.