The

Dignidad y Justificia

association

has filed a

complaint

with the National Court against

the parish priest of the Biscayan town of Lemona

for his statements about ETA, issued in the documentary, "

Bajo el silencio", by Iñaki Arteta

, which they consider "nauseating and very serious" .

In this documentary, premiered at the Seminci this week, for 8 minutes, the priest justifies ETA's terrorism openly: "

It was not terrorism, but a response to a repression that was being suffered, which is very different,

" he says.

And he speaks directly of a war of sides, between two nations: "The one that an oppressed people, whom they want to conquer, should respond, well with violence,

I do not know to what extent it is terrorism. We all understand that this is a war between sides

, between one nation or against another nation. "

The priest does not even consider the conflict closed, but extends it to the present: "

Conflict, there was and there is, there is and it existed and it exists,

" he points out, and to the interviewer's question whether it can be said that what ETA did was wrong, He responds by assuming that the terrorists were left with no other way out: "

One thing is that it was wrong and another thing is that you could admit that there was no other way to do it

. When a person has done what he has done, he realizes that, I have not wanted to do this, circumstances have led me to do that. "

He also considers it logical that given the "oppression" suffered by the Basque people, the deaths in attacks would not be lamented: "In other words, the oppression of the Basque people, which seems to be a banner, that is real. But that is there ... . It was and is, right? It was and is. It

was much easier for you to leave, protesting the death of an ETA, than protesting the death of a bailiff

.

"

And faced with the death of civil guards in an attack in that town in 1981, he confesses that "you did not know what to expect,

on the one hand you are happy that, well, what you deserve is getting, and on the other hand you are saying, but not okay

. "

"When there are deaths and such, you say, man, we shouldn't go so far, but where is the limit, right? And of course ..."

The priest believes that the graffiti in favor of ETA prisoners "are few", and recalls all the relatives of prisoners who lose their lives visiting their relatives.

However, when asked about how the victims of ETA should be remembered, the parish priest answers: "How should they be remembered? In what sense, how should they be remembered? As martyrs? As collateral effects? How, as something that It shouldn't have happened? How the sin, would we say, of our primary being? I don't know, I don't know how to remember them. "

And he continues: "We talk about victims and

we only talk about victims when we are talking about victims of ETA, we would say, right? And we do not talk about victims when we are talking about prisoners,

for example, who are victims of a prison policy, and so on. "

Regarding the fact that there are ETA members who do not regret their crimes, he believes that they must be "respected."

In addition to a complaint before the National Court for considering that his statements constitute a

crime of glorifying terrorism and humiliating its victims

, the association led by

Daniel Portero

, has asked the Episcopal Conference to "immediately suspend this parish priest of all its functions related to the Catholic Church, since religious values ​​are not compatible with terrorism. "

In addition, they have urged the highest organ of the Church to disavow the said parish priest and distance himself from such claims.

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