• Via Nanclares: The Government's red line to apply benefits to ETA prisoners

The delegate of the Government in the Basque Country, Jesús Loza , has assured that the Executive contemplates, after the elections, the possibility of opening a "Via Nanclares 2" for ETA prisoners , a reintegration path for ETAs to make a "self-criticism" real, not a mere paper. "

The 'Via Nanclares' receives this name for the Alava prison in which the ETA members who decided to detach themselves from the gang, apologize for their crimes and commit themselves to pay civil liability to their victims were grouped together with the Zapatero government . It was abandoned with the Government of Rajoy .

In statements to the SER, Loza has assured that the government can "establish in the future the possibility of opening a Via Nanclares 2 or a Via Zaballa (the new prison of the town of Nanclares) so that these prisoners can be reinserted, but they encounter an obstacle, and that is that the world of the EPPK and the world of the abertzale left has generally marked two red lines: delation and regret . "

The delegate underlines that "delation is not mandatory, but self-criticism is fundamental."

Loza expects the community of prisoners and their families to react after the agreement that the lawyers of the EPPK prisoner group themselves have reached in the trial against the prison front, where they agreed and pleaded guilty to avoid jail.

The Government delegate has "indications" that there are ETA prisoners who would be interested in taking advantage of that new Via Nanclares , but he recalled that "we do not have a constituted government", so, in any case, it would be done after general elections if the PSOE continues to govern. "It is working so that when there is (the government) can be launched quickly," he said.

Regarding the methodology, Loza has confirmed that this would be very similar to the one developed so far, also confirming that "the self-criticism is real and not just a mere role, but there would be a progressive approach with arrival in Zaballa and then all the reflection they have what to do with the possibility of passing to third grades or conditional freedoms ".

The delegate has also pointed out that the experience is that the prisoners who once used the Via Nanclares leave personally "infinitely better" than the rest , and stressed the role that these reintegrated ETA prisoners can play in favor of living together.

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