MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Victims of Terrorism Foundation will recognize in its annual awards the Spirit of Ermua with the Adolfo Suárez Human Rights Defense Award and the Rapid Action Groups (GAR) of the Civil Guard with the special mention 2022. The ceremony will be held next December 15.
The Spirit of Ermua refers to the spontaneous civic movement, with multiple demonstrations, that emerged after the kidnapping and subsequent murder of popular councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco at the hands of ETA, between July 10 and 12, 1997, an attack that this year 25 years have passed.
Representing all the civic movements against ETA –such as Gesto por la Paz and Basta Ya– the prize will be collected by the mayor of Ermua in that month of July 1997, Carlos Totorika Izaguirre, mayor of the Biscayan town between 1991 and 2018 and Basque parliamentarian between 1999 and 2001.
In this XIX edition of the awards of the Foundation for Victims of Terrorism there will be a special mention for the Rapid Action Groups (GAR) of the Civil Guard “for their important work first against the terrorist group ETA and, currently, against terrorism jihadist”.
The ceremony will be held on December 15, 2022 at the Gabriela Mistral Auditorium of Casa América, in Madrid, where the traditional school awards ‘Ana María Vidal Abarca, a city without violence’ will also be awarded, in its different modalities. The journalist from ‘El Diario Vasco’ Arantza González Egaña will also receive the Fernando Delgado Journalism Award.
