“The release of ETA prisoners violates the rights of victims”

2024-08-22 01:04:09

The Conference of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) has warned Sare that the “arbitrary release” of ETA prisoners, “before their rights” and without them meeting the requirements set by the Law, “the rights of the victims of the group .

The party chaired by Consuelo Ordóñez has responded in this way to Sare, the civil support network for ETA prisoners, which called on Monday to the PSE-EE, which has taken control of the Basque prisons, to be “creative ” to facilitate them. released

“That ETA members are imprisoned for killing or helping to kill, does not violate their rights,” Covite said through social networks. Instead, he warned that what goes against “the right of those who have been wronged to justice” is that “they have been fraudulently released before their rights.” “There is no ‘creating’ that hides,” he emphasized.

And what is certain is that those around ETA continue to force the Government to ensure the release of group prisoners who are working in their prisons. To date, 24 prisoners have progressed to the third level in the last year and another 20 have had article 100.2 of the Prison Regulations applied to them so that they can leave prison during the day to do voluntary work, training or paid service. In a press conference in San Sebastián, the spokesmen Sare Joseba Azkarraga and Nahikari Iturbe reported on the evaluation that the network is doing every August on the situation of these prisoners.

According to the data provided, six years after the abolition of ETA there are 148 prisoners from the terrorist group serving sentences; 126 of them men and 22 women. Of the total, 142 are in prisons in the Basque Country and Navarra, and another six in prisons in France.

On the other hand, Covite has registered a total of 71 support acts for ETA in the summer festivals of Euskadi and Navarra, 25 of which are in official programs by EH Bildu communities.

This group reported this weekend in a statement that acts of support for the terrorist group have included the display of flags, graffiti or posters with the faces of ETA prisoners, with a request for their release. Toasts, dances and games have also been held in which the release of prisoners who have been convicted of terrorism sentences have been requested. Of all of them, 25 have been promoted directly by public institutions, especially city councils governed by EH Bildu, which put them in the official festival programs. The rest are organized by EH Bildu or Sortu as a group, and by groups around the left of the country. “This is unthinkable in any democratic country,” Ordóñez said.