The Colectivo de Víctimas del Terrorismo (Covite)

has emphatically denied the Interior Minister

Fernando Grande-Marlaska,

noting that since 2011 the police activity of arresting ETA members and investigating their crimes has practically ceased. The president of Covite

Consuelo Ordóñez

has described as

"very poor" the 11 arrests made

since a "negotiated end" of ETA was reached and there are still

350 crimes without having identified the culprits

. Minister Grande-Marlaska had assured hours before in Congress that in the last decade there had been

241 arrests of ETA members

.

Currently fewer than 200 are incarcerated in Spanish prisons.

Covite will not attend this afternoon the event organized by the Ministry of the Interior

in Vitoria to pay tribute to the victims, 10 years after the declaration of the end of the terrorist activity by ETA.

The group chaired by Consuelo Ordóñez is especially upset with the Minister Grande Marlaska, who they blame for the police inaction during the last decade despite the fact that there are about thirty free ETA members and the responsibility of 350 murders committed by the gang continues to be unclear.

Covite criticizes that since October 2011 only 11 people related to attacks resulting in death or injuries have been arrested based on the data it has obtained through three official sources. "The case with which it is best visualized that the victims

have paid the price of peace with the impunity

of our murderers is that of

Carlos Sáenz de Tejada and Diego Salva

, the last victims of ETA in Spain, whose murderers are still fugitives from the justice. Some murders that occurred just 12 years ago, "explained Consuelo Ordóñez in a balance of the ten years that have elapsed without attacks by the terrorist gang.

This association of victims interprets that this "impunity" of the ETA members is part of the "negotiated end" between ETA and the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero. "If ETA no longer kills us, it is not because it has been defeated by the rule of law, but because the conditions of its end were negotiated with the band," laments Ordóñez, also very critical of the Government of Mariano Rajoy for not dismantling that negotiation and presumably to facilitate the legalization of the Abertzale Left with new brands such as Sortu's.

Covite's data contrasts with those offered this morning by Minister Grande Marlaska during the control session held in the Congress of Deputies.

The balance offered by the minister of police activity against ETA in the last decade would be

241 alleged terrorists detained

, 35 located pockets and the seizure of 360 weapons, 6,000 detonators and more than 900 kilos of explosives.

Marlaska has assured on TVE that police investigations continue to clarify the 300 terrorist crimes without an identified author.

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