About 600 people formed a human chain on Saturday in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) to once again alert the fate of Basque prisoners, one of whom saw his second request for parole examined on Thursday.
The demonstrators set up their human chain on the bridge which overhangs the port of the Luzian city before moving on the very touristy place Louis XIV, in the heart of the city, where representatives of the civil movement Bake Bidea ("The way of peace ”) denounced“ the sabotage of the peace process in the Basque Country ”.
Prosecutors deemed "very aggressive"
This mobilization was the culmination of a week "which illustrates the reality of this impasse," said the organizers. On Thursday, the sentence enforcement chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal studied a request for conditional release from Jakes Esnal, the second made by this 69-year-old prisoner, former head of the former separatist armed organization ETA, who has passed the milestone of thirty years in prison. The decision is expected by September 24.
“We faced a very aggressive attitude from the prosecution and the Advocate General, the debates were not at all peaceful. We also felt a totally dependent report and a biased attitude of the judges who only put forward the unfavorable points, ”said his lawyer Me Maritxu Paulus-Basurco, present at the mobilization.
A responsible territory
Two days before, a delegation of elected officials from the Basque Country had been received at the Ministry of Justice to raise "the unacceptable attitude of the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office", which had notably appealed in May from the decision of the Court for the enforcement of sentences of Paris, competent in terrorist matters, to satisfy the request for release of Esnal.
"We have also reminded public authorities that this territory has always taken responsibility," said Anaiz Funosas, president of Bake Bidea. In addition to Jakes Esnal, Mrs. Funosas is rebellious of the fate reserved for Ion Parot and Frédéric "Xistor" Haramboure, also detained for thirty years: "Are we witnessing a revenge of state? Do we want to kill them in prison? "
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