Mikel Iturgaiz, the baby marked by terrorism who does not flee from the nationalists

• Basque Country The Basque PP denounces that "EH Bildu's background is violence" after not condemning the attack on Mikel Iturgaiz

• Harassment They denounce insults and threats against Iturgaiz's son in Getxo

Mikel Iturgaiz

takes the name of a promise.

And he proudly bears that commitment made by his father to

that his second son would have the name of the mayor kidnapped and murdered by ETA in 1997. Marked from the cradle by terrorism, he suffers from his heirs as an adult .

He knows, like all young Basques, that the nationalist left

spaces of the Basque festivals with the same instruments as the Italian Camorra.

A question like "Aren't you the son of Iturgaiz?"

anticipate problems.

When the first threat breaks the anonymity of the new victim of the ETA puppies, it is convenient to flee.

Mikel does not run away.

The youngest son of Carlos Iturgaiz and his wife,

was clear in the early hours of last Friday that he would go to the

neighborhood

of

.

So clear that hours before meeting with his gang, she told his father.

Carlos Iturgaiz also knows, like all Basque adults, that the

of the great majority of the towns of

are

Enclosures subsidized by the city councils, managed by popular commissions controlled by the

and, in recent months, a battlefield between the youth of

- Otegi's party - and those of

- a growing critical current of young communists who they are already announcing the creation of their own party.

The madman who formulated the question-accusation against Mikel Iturgaiz interpreted the silence of the young man and his friends as the confirmation he did not need.

The persecution against this young man was already primed and, as happened to him in

in June 2021, the radical ban was opened to surround him, persecute him and demand that he leave the festive grounds.

Iturgaiz, as he confirmed in the complaint filed with the

just hours later, felt a "real fear of being attacked", a pressure he knows well because his courage not to give up being just another young man makes him an easy target for young people. followers of the ideological violence that is still present in Euskadi.

Supporters of the nationalist left

to point to Mikel Iturgaiz when his father decided, in February 2020, to accept Pablo Casado's hasty call.

The then president of the PP and his right-hand man, Teodoro García Egea, needed an urgent replacement to lead the party in Euskadi after forcing the resignation of

.

Mikel, unaware of that call on a Sunday in February, had finished his automotive studies, kept his passion for Athletic as a

and enjoyed almost complete anonymity.

But his father's return to the forefront of Basque politics revived the hatred that EH Bildu supporters hold against the Iturgaiz surname.

The president of the Basque PP suffered between 1993 and 2004 the persecution of ETA.

On at least three occasions terrorist commandos from the gang tried to assassinate him while her wife, Lorena, watched as the gunmen assassinated almost a dozen of her husband's companions, such as Miguel Ángel Blanco.

Of those times, Mikel, today 24 years old, can barely remember.

But without active ETA, he knows that anonymous cowards have him singled out.

Since 2020, he has suffered damage to his car, they persecuted him and threatened him while he was playing a football match in Gernika with the team from his ikastola and endures the hateful looks that he faces almost every weekend.

And Mikel, in the face of the ever-present threat of terror, maintains as a fixed message his commitment to "continue fighting for who we are, where we come from and the path we want to get there."

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