Because they are convinced they intend to rush all the possibilities, inside and outside the borders.
Because they understand that there are legal tools to prosecute those who were leaders of ETA for crimes against humanity.
This was made clear by Daniel Portero, president of Dignidad, during the conference held this Wednesday in EL MUNDO on terrorism.
And the spokesman for the victims had an important accolade, the former head of the European Court of Human Rights and Supreme Court magistrate, Francisco Javier Borrego, who also made it clear that the current legal text opens the door for this action.
Under the title "The role of the courts in the battle of the story: ETA's crimes against humanity," representatives of the victims, the judicial, institutional and journalistic worlds gathered.
The speakers denounced the whitewashing of ETA by the Executive.
The president of Dignidad y Justicia, Daniel Portero, met at the EL MUNDO headquarters;
the former magistrate, Francisco Javier Borrego;
the director of the Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism, Florencio Domínguez;
the director of the program La Litena de la Cope, Ángel Exposito;
and the director of the newspaper EL MUNDO, Francisco Rosell.
All voices agreed to raise a clear defense of the memory and the story, so that ETA's responsibility is not misrepresented or diluted.
The president of Dignidad y Justicia was clear: "We must and can be victors."
He explained that in 2013, his association began proceedings in the National Court for crimes against humanity against ETA leaders.
And they obtained an indictment of a magistrate who opened the door to prosecute the ETA bosses for their responsibility in the crimes.
«The Court left open that door, which is still open, but no one is pushing.
Because the Prosecutor's Office does not help, "says Portero, who denounces Spain's passivity when carrying out actions against the ETA plot.
He recalled that his association has an open case in Argentina for two murders, Manuel Zamarreño and José Luis Ramón Caso.
"ETA wanted to eliminate many groups of the population: military, civil guards, police, journalists, politicians, prosecutors ...".
He explained that this procedure is still alive despite the fact that the prosecution has not responded for two years.
In the European Parliament, "we also lodged a complaint against the Government precisely for the failure to prosecute crimes."
Portero described the Interior Minister as "very disappointing", "who has betrayed us the victims. He even told us that he would never approach ETA with blood crimes, and there are already 35, including my father's murderer. We are extremely pissed off. the associations. Now we cannot go out into the streets. But we have already spoken for when the pandemic ends, going out to the streets to vindicate the memory and the story of our victims and the injustice that is being carried out from the Interior ".
The one who was a judge of the European Court of Human Rights and a former magistrate of the Supreme Court, endorsed the judicial actions aimed at trying ETA leaders for crimes against humanity.
Francisco Javier Borrego recalled the 2003 ruling of his former court on Herri Batasuna: "The omissions or silences of politicians can amount to taking positions and be as loud as any position of express support."
The former magistrate recalled that Spain introduced the crime against humanity in the Penal Code, “and it would be applicable to ETA crimes.
Try all the efforts to apply the application of 607, they could succeed ", he pointed out emphatically.
For his part, Florencio Domínguez, director of the Victims of Terrorism Memorial Center, assured that now “there is a society that wants to know, in the past it did not want to know, it did not want to be asked these types of questions about terrorism.
Now he wants to know.
Domínguez recalled that the associations have always demanded "an end to ETA without impunity. And that a narrative that a posteriori justifies ETA's actions should not be set in motion.
“We owe a debt to the victims.
The political world related to ETA is doing intense work to try to dilute ETA's responsibilities.
“We have to advance in the delegitimization of ETA before the new generations.
It is important to bring to education in institutions and schools what terrorism has meant in the history of Spain, with the testimony of the victims in schools.
Your testimony has a great impact.
We have to leave a settled story for the new generations, delegitimizing ETA.
The director of EL MUNDO, Francisco Rosell, wanted to remember the murders of Luis Portero, the Jiménez Becerril couple and the columnist of this newspaper José Luis López de Lacalle.
"Here it is not that the blood of the victims has dried up soon, the memory and their memory is drying up, and we cannot allow that," he said.
He assured that Grande Marlaska “has been the great disappointment of this Government because it is whitewashing the image of ETA.
We have a duty of memory to the victims.
They are our heroes.
But in this political moment our heroes are uncomfortable.
He denounced that we are living a “very delicate moment in which we must take a step forward and remember the victims.
Because a society that ignores its heroes and ignores its values is a society that is in a critical moment of survival.
Rosell stressed that one of the hardest moments was hearing the former Valme hospital doctor and now Government spokesperson María Jesús Montero justify "the pacts with ETA to remain in power, she who surely those tragic days would add to the pain of the entire Sevillian society for the murder »of the Jiménez Becerril family.
For his part, the host of the Cope program La Literna, Angel Expósito, assured: «We are witnessing an evident whitening campaign by ETA.
Can anyone imagine Daesh negotiating budgets in the US or in London in 10 years?
Is the same.
They are terrorists.
"We are sick?
Do we prefer Otegi as an interlocutor than Ortega Lara?
Is it more illegal, ultra Ortega Lara than Otegi?
But what world are we in?
We are crazy?".
He attacked Marlaska: «Who has seen you and who sees you.
The Civil Guard and the Police, how many times have they saved your life.
What this government is doing is spitting on dignity.
Don't you care about honor?
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