• Controversy: The Basque University hosts two speakers as speakers

The children of two fatal victims of attacks for which the ETA express, José Ramón López de Abetxuko , was convicted, have described as "inconceivable derision in any decent and dignified society" the talk he will offer along with the lawyer of the left abertza Txema Matanzas , on the campus of the public university (UPV-EHU) in Vitoria.

In a statement, Ana Velasco Zuazola, daughter of Jesús Velasco Zuazolal, head of the Miñones de Álava, and Eduardo Lázaro Ezquerra, son of Eugenio Lázaro Valle, commander of the army and chief of the Municipal Police of Vitoria, have indicated that the end of the Terrorism "cannot return the lives of those who were killed," but they have argued that "the least that can be demanded in a rule of law is that their memory be respected and honored ."

Therefore, they have considered that it is "deeply painful" to verify that the victims are "helpless by the institutions and by the Justice" that, in their opinion, "tolerates that such serious offenses against the victims may occur that also denigrate the entire society".

They have referred to the act of reception they had in Vitoria López de Abetxuko when they left prison in July of last year after serving 30 years of sentence and have said they feel "deeply hurt, mistreated and ashamed to verify that in Spain they can commit with impunity such terrible grievances , "in reference to the aforementioned reception and the talk planned at the UPV-EHU.

"We believe that events like these lead us not to the end of terrorism but to its legitimization. Without a doubt, today, more than ever, the victims have lost, " they concluded.

"It has to lead us to outrage"

The talk by López de Abetxuko and Matanzas is scheduled for Tuesday and is organized by the ETA prisoner support network, Sare. The Collective of Terrorism Victims of the Basque Country, Covite, and the Government delegate in Euskadi, Jesús Loza, have already requested its cancellation.

In statements to the SER, Loza has warned that the fact that "a convicted murderer and has not made any kind of tour, the day of the commemoration of human rights - coincides on Tuesday - will give a talk to the university it has to lead us to outrage. "

"It is a sarcasm that the murderer of Txutxi Velasco and Eugenio Lázaro of a talk at the public university, which is the temple of tolerance, that gives it a hundred meters from the place where Fernando Buesa and Jorge Díez were killed, and on the day of human rights, when the first right is the right to life, "he stressed.

The government delegate recalled that López de Abetxuko has served his sentence, and is "a free man and has the right to expression guaranteed precisely by the Constitution he intended to destroy."

Therefore, "it is a perfectly legal act, but its presence is ethically, socially and politically rejectable. I would ask Sare to suspend the act, to look for another day, not to match a murderer's talk with human rights day. , look for another place, not to run the university, and look for another speaker to talk about sick prisoners. "

50 meters from the monument in memory of Buesa

The Basque Public University (UPV-EHU) will host a talk by former ETA member José Ramón López de Abetxuko on Tuesday, December 10, at which he will denounce to the Basque university students the situation in which his former students are imprisoned terrorist bandmates. Next to him will sit also the former ETA prisoner for being a member of Ekin and lawyer Txema Matanzas in an act that will take place just 50 meters from the monument that recalls the murder of Fernando Buesa and his escort Jorge Díez committed by a command in February of the year 2000.

López de Abetxuko murdered, according to the National Court, the head of the municipal police of Vitoria Eugenio Lázaro Valle in 1980 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison that he served in his entirety in the month of July 2018. He has never expressed regret.

Sare, the group that demands the release of sick ETA prisoners and the approach to Basque prisons of all of them, has organized a conference in the UPV Aulario in Vitoria, a building full of symbolism because from there the etarra and UPV student Asier Karreras activated the remote control that caused the car bomb explosion that ended the life of the socialist politician and the Ertzaina who protected him.

The former Etarra returned from the jail of Villabona in Asturias to Vitoria, his hometown, and there he was received by fifty relatives, friends and supporters of the Abertzale left who in one of the cantons of the Old Town was honored with the delivery of a bouquet of flowers, a zortziko and a toast with champagne while everyone present claimed the aminist for all the prisoners in the band.

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