Andoain has remembered the "free thinker" José Luis López de Lacalle with his sights set on the youngest.

Twenty-two years after he was shot by ETA when he was returning home, his widow Mari Paz Artolazabal, the mayor of

Andoain

Maider Laínez, family members, colleagues and friends have recovered the writer's "power of words" as the basis for the construction of the coexistence.

A process still open in which Artolazabal has demanded from the Abertzale Left, in Basque and in Spanish, that the evil of terrorism be publicly recognized and that it should never have happened.

Artolazabal, the

andereño

(Basque teacher), who taught thousands of children in Andoain since the 1970s, has demanded a clear commitment from the Abertzale Left for coexistence.

For decades Artolazabal suffered in silence the pressure suffered by José Luis de Lacalle, a free spirit who confronted Francoism and ended up in jail.

With Franco dead, De la Calle maintained his commitment to the "force of words", in the words of mayor Laínez, to confront ETA fascism and the complicit political and social support of the Abertzale Left, which was especially lacerating in Gipuzkoan towns such as Andoain.

"22 years ago the situation was completely different, today thank God they don't kill anyone," Artolazabal recognized in a brief speech that closed the act of remembrance organized every May 7 by the socialist group of the PSE-EE of Gipuzkoa and in which the general secretary of the Gipuzkoan socialists and regional deputy José Ignacio Asensio also participated.

Friends of José Luis De Lacalle such as Maixabel Lasa, Mikel Arregi, Ignacio Latierro, Gorka Landaburu, Patxi Elola have once again remembered him along with several dozen socialist members and residents of Andoain.

Its mayor, the socialist Maider Laínez, has focused on the importance of involving the youngest in the values ​​defended by the EL MUNDO columnist from the Basque Country who was murdered on his way home after buying copies of all the newspapers and It was covered with an already iconic umbrella.

"It cannot be that the young people of Ermua do not know who Miguel Ángel Blanco was or that those of Andoain do not know De Lacalle", stressed Laínez, the socialist leader who took over from the Andoain socialists who resisted the terrorist threat and the social pressure of the Abertzale Left.

"We do not want nor can we allow ourselves to be a country without memory", stressed the mayor of Andoain while in the first row among those present were the two granddaughters of José Luis and Mari Paz.

Laínez encouraged those present to listen to young people when they express their doubts about what happened to ETA terrorism, a political violence still incomprehensible to many Basques but still justified by a minority today.

In fact, just twenty meters from the sculpture dedicated to remembering De Lacalle, a poster attached to one of the garbage containers calls for a fight for the "Euskal Estatu Sozialista" (the Basque socialist state) with symbols and slogans of the gang ETA terrorist Thousands of young Basques are already active in groups such as the Gazte Koordinadora Sozialista (GKS) that justify ETA terrorism and demand amnesty for all the gang's prisoners.

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