Europe does not want to forget that there are still 379 murders
committed by
ETA
members with
no known perpetrator
and a delegation of MEPs will meet tomorrow and the day after in Madrid with victims, police officers, prosecutors and judges to
"try to get answers" about these crimes
. The president of the delegation of MEPs
Agnès Evren
has been blunt today in Vitoria about the obligation to
"continue investigating so that those guilty
of these crimes
are brought to trial"
. The presence of MEPs was promoted by
Dignidad y Justicia in 2016
and opens an opportunity to
identify the murderers
by also analyzing the
functioning of the Justice in
charge of clarifying these crimes.
Evren acknowledged his
"very strong emotion"
at "stepping into the skin of a victim of terrorism" after visiting the Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria on Wednesday, a preamble to his investigative work that will begin today in Madrid. "We will work so that
the victims of terrorism are not left out
,
"
he promised in front of his fellow delegates Alex Agius Saliba from Malta, Vlad Gheorghe, from Romania and Kosma Zlotowski from Poland, and together with a group of Spanish parliamentarians made up of Dolors Montserrat from the PP, Cristina Maestre Martín de Almagro from the PSOE, Maite Pagazaurtundua, from Ciudadanos and Jorge Buxadé Villalbade Vox who will accompany them during their stay in Spain.
The French MEP underlined the "pluralist" nature of this research group that was activated from a complaint filed with the European Parliament Petitions Committee for Dignity and Justice in 2016 and that, almost five years later, will allow MEPs to know
why more than 40% of ETA crimes remain unpunished
. Evren clearly expressed his commitment to the victims of the delegation by establishing "justice, democracy, reparation and truth" as pillars of a work that will continue after his visit to Spain and will be specified in a series of recommendations that will be analyzed in Parliament. European and transferred to the Council of Europe.
The presence of the delegation of the MEPs reactivates the obligation of the Justice and the Police to continue investigating these 379 crimes that are divided between the
65 murders
not clarified prior to the
Amnesty Law of 1977
and the 314 committed afterwards and the that those responsible have not been identified.
ETA murdered 858 people
, caused thousands of injuries and threatened thousands of citizens from its creation in the 1960s until its dissolution in 2018.
The gang tried with their terrorist actions to make it difficult to investigate their crimes, but serious errors have also been found in the judicial investigations.
The journalist
JuanFer Calderín
documents a long list of serious flaws in his book
Holes of the System
.
Etarras like
Josu Ternera
and
Txikierdi
benefited from judicial inefficiency.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
Madrid
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spain
Dolors Montserrat
European Parliament
Citizens
PP
ETA
Romania
Parot doctrine
SpainCiudadanos frayed by the municipalities for presenting themselves "as outside" in the 2019 elections
City CouncilsCiudadanos get the Mayor's Office of Alcobendas and the PP accuses him of "throwing himself into the arms of Podemos"
The weekend closes with 64 new deaths and the drop in incidence to 54 points
See links of interest
La Palma volcano live
Last News
Holidays 2021
2022 business calendar
Basque Holidays
What
Home THE WORLD TODAY
Atalanta - Manchester United
Dinamo Kiev - Barcelona, live
FC Bayern München - Benfica
Juventus - Zenit St Petersburg
Seville - Lille