The Bilbao City Council

has prevented the celebration in the municipal building of La Bolsa of a talk in tribute to

Txabi Etxebarrieta from ETA

. The Consistory chaired by

Juan Mari Aburto (PNV)

informed the organizers today that they could not use the municipal facility despite the fact that

the National Court had dismissed a complaint

from

Dignity and Justice

in which it asked the judges to prevent the holding of a act centered on

one of the founders of ETA

who, in addition, perpetrated

the gang's first crime by shooting point-blank

at the civil guard

José Antonio Pardines

on June 7, 1968.

The associations "Etxebarrieta Memoria Elkartea" (Association in Memory of Etxebarrieta) and "Egiari Zor Fundazioa" had announced the celebration of several acts of remembrance and tribute to Txabi Etxebarrieta from ETA on Monday, June 7, 53 years after the death of one of the founders of ETA. Etxebarrieta was the gunman who murdered the civil guard José Antonio Pardines when he was

regulating traffic at the NI

in Aduna (Guipúzcoa). The Civil Guard agent suspected the vehicle, a SEAT 850, in which Etxebarrieta and

Iñaki Sarasketa were

traveling

. When Pardines asked for the documentation of the two ETA members, Etxebarrieta shot him, leaving him wounded, and then finished him off with four more shots.

Etxebarrieta and Sarasketa were arrested in Tolosa, minutes later, but

Etxebarrieta died in a struggle with Civil Guard agents

while Sarasketa managed to flee at first but was intercepted hours later in Regil.

The ETA member was going to be honored with three acts scheduled for this weekend but the

PP of Bilbao and Covite, Dignity and Justice and the Villacisneros Foundation

had already denounced that these acts constituted an affront to the victims.

Daniel Portero de Dignidad y Justicia had demanded the suspension of the act to the National High Court but

Judge José Luis Calama

has refused to prohibit the planned acts, stating that there is no "evidence whatsoever that allows affirming that any crime has occurred or will occur ".

"It must be the competent government authority, in this case

the security forces and bodies, who must decide whether the condemnation denounced

conforms to the regulations for its celebration," he said in the order issued this morning when the City Council had not yet made public a decision that had been adopted last Thursday after analyzing the call and the reservation made of the space where the talk was going to take place.

The organizers of the talk, of a

public act in the Plaza Unamuno in Bilbao

and of a

wreath at the grave

where the remains of the ETA lie in the Derio cemetery have announced their suspension this afternoon.

Instead, on Sunday, the organizers will hold a press conference in Bilbao.

"The victims who have suffered state violence continue to be discriminated against. We are denied the right to memory. We are denied the right to make public the truth about the deaths of our relatives," they have made public.

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