Vox urges the Government to apply the EU recommendations to consider ETA's crimes as "against humanity"

• Decision The European Parliament requests that ETA crimes be investigated as crimes against humanity

• Change The PSOE rectifies and decides to support in Europe the investigations against ETA for crimes against humanity

Vox has presented two non-law proposals to the Congress of Deputies to apply the recommendations of the European Union on ETA terrorism.

Specifically, the formation led by

urges the Government to adopt "the necessary measures to grant the status of crimes against humanity to the crimes committed by the terrorist organization."

This is one of the recommendations of the report of the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament on April 22 and which was approved with the support of Vox, the PP, Ciudadanos and, finally, the PSOE, which changed the direction of their vote in the Last moment.

In addition, the formation has presented another proposal "to promote the necessary measures to articulate the necessary and effective legal mechanisms to avoid the public glorification of convicted terrorists when they leave prison, due to the pain and secondary victimization that it entails for the victims of the terrorism, as well as preventing their humiliation".

That is, the

.

Vox will also present a parliamentary initiative to urge the Government to act on another of the most relevant points of the European report: that legal mechanisms be articulated so that ETA prisoners have to collaborate with the Justice in order to avail themselves of prison benefits.

As detailed by the party in its writings, to which EL MUNDO has had access, on crimes against humanity, on April 21, 2022, the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament approved the Mission Report, prepared after the visit made by a delegation of MEPs to Spain, from November 3 to 5, 2021, in relation to the

in Spain.

Said mission of information took place as a result of the request before the European Parliament of the

.

The victims denounce "the inactivity or negligence on the part of the Spanish authorities" in investigating almost half, specifically 44%, of the murders committed by ETA.

European recommendations

The Mission Report contains 15 recommendations for action at the national level to the Spanish authorities, 14 recommendations for action to the European institutions and three recommendations at the international level, including the possible recognition of ETA's terrorist crimes as crimes against humanity .

Vox recalls that the European Parliament, in its Resolution of December 12, 2018 on the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Commission on Terrorism, requested the explicit classification of terrorism as a "crime against humanity".

For its part, Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides that murders, enforced disappearances and other inhumane acts of a similar nature that intentionally cause great suffering or seriously harm physical integrity or mental or physical health are classified as "crimes against humanity".

Vox points out in its writing that ETA "was not limited to attacking the Security Forces and Corps, but carried out systematic attacks against the civilian population, such as the attack on the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona or the kidnapping for 532 days of the prison official

.

These attacks against the civilian population and against the State Security Corps and Forces "induced widespread fear, the most powerful weapon that ETA had".

The constant threats and coercion that the Basque and Navarrese populations received through the demand for the revolutionary tax, for example, meant that many people abandoned their homes and had to forcibly move to other territories, in order to protect their lives and those of those who loved them. surrounding them, leading to their "forced transfer", as defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The Return Project, prepared by the Basque Institute of Criminology, estimated that nearly 200,000 Basques (approximately 10% of the population) were forced to leave their land as a result of the violence carried out by ETA.

"Dignity of the victims"

Regarding the acts of glorification, Vox recalls that they represent "moral violence towards the victims of terrorism, causing them a double victimization, since they have to see how the murderer, kidnapper or executioner of their relative is publicly honored and shown as a example of a fight to follow, systematically violating the right to honor and dignity of the victims of terrorism".

The request for the release, rapprochement and amnesty of its prisoners is a historic claim by the terrorist organization ETA, which over the years it has carried out through associations "created for that mission, which are happened over time, as they were outlawed by the courts, due to their terrorist nature".

Vox recalls that today, despite the dissolution of ETA, "this dynamic continues to be maintained by entities and organizations, which are expressly created, a priori, to ensure the rights of the prisoners of the terrorist organization, giving their calls a vindictive character but that, in reality, they carry out an authentic mechanism responsible for convening and disseminating the welcome acts or

prisoners of the terrorist organization who are released from prison, or acts of homage to members of the terrorist organization who have died or on the anniversary of their death, to subsequently publicize their celebration, or through the exhibition of photographs of prisoners of the terrorist organization ETA, taking advantage of any festive event, such as popular races, patron saint festivities, demonstrations, etc.". These acts of praising terrorism and justifying terrorist crimes suppose "the consequent humiliation of the victims of terrorism and their families" .

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