He says that “it is not fair” to ask for the return of prisoners to Euskadi when “expatriates” due to the persecution of the gang “cannot do it”
VITORIA, 5 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This coming Sunday, at the Vitoria-Gasteiz Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism, the Mila Esker association of ertzainas will pay homage to the four ertzainas injured in separate attacks by ETA carried out in 2001, in the Etxebarria park (Bilbao), and in 2003, in Alto de Herrera (Álava).
The Etxebarria park attack consisted of a trap using a bomb hidden in a banner with the slogan ‘Police, murder: ETA kill them’, which the terrorists detonated when it was about to be removed by a patrol of Ertzaintza agents.
The other two comrades honored were victims of a shooting in Alto de Herrera (Álava), when members of ETA simulated a traffic accident and called the Ertzaintza for help. When the patrol arrived, the terrorists fired shotguns at the two agents who had gone to help the alleged victims of the accident.
The tribute on Sunday, which will be held starting at noon at the Vitoria-Gasteiz Victims Memorial, will consist of “remembering and retrospect the recent history lived” and awarding each of the four officers victims of these attacks with the medal for police work and merit awarded by Mila Esker, as reported by this association in a statement.
Mila Esker has explained that the 15 members of the Ertzaintza assassinated by ETA already “have guaranteed an individual and annual memory and recognition on each of their anniversaries”. From now on, the association will also promote acts of homage to all those ertzainas “who have suffered attacks and attacks of all kinds and fortunately have survived”, some people whom -according to it has been affirmed- “nobody remembers and the that we owe them perpetual recognition and well-deserved support”.
Mila Esker has affirmed that these people were singled out as targets and suffered persecution, for which “many had to leave the Basque Country, in forced exile to save their own lives from the terrorist threat and the radical milieu”.
This group has stressed that there is a “pending issue” of “guaranteeing the rights of all those Basque men and women ‘expatriates’ from their land due to the threat from ETA”, in order to ensure “that they can return to their towns, recover their houses, their property and their broken lives.
“We will ensure that the true heroes of our society are recognized for their work and do not suffer unfair forgetfulness, neither institutional nor social; and that they are guaranteed the enjoyment of a new life in conditions of full dignity and recognition for the damage caused, just as they deserve”, he added.
Mila Esker has warned that “it is not fair that those who, even having exercised, defended, supported and/or justified violence, now claim prison benefits to be able to return to their homes when there are good citizens who still cannot do so”.
Faced with this “social injustice”, this association claims as its motto ‘Exiled and threatened by terrorism Euskal Herrira. Biktimak etxera ‘”. “Only when this happens will true justice be done and the rights of all will be truly defended”, she affirmed.
