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Maite Pagazaurtundua

and

Fernando Savater

have launched the last cries 'For Freedom' in Andoain on the 20th anniversary of the murder of

Joseba Pagazaurtundua

.

The MEP, sister of the municipal police officer assassinated by an ETA commando on February 8, 2003, has denounced the continuity of the "terror industry" exercised by ETA through the political "whitening" of the nationalist left, Pedro's parliamentary partner Sánchez and María Chivite in Madrid and Navarra.

Maite Pagaza has recalled that Arnaldo Otegi, the leader of EH Bildu, did not accept the "ethical ground" of condemnation of

ETA

agreed in Euskadi and, nevertheless, the pacts with the abertzale coalition have been normalized.

Maite Pagazaurtundua has been supported by Joseba's partner Estíbaliz Garmendia, by Joseba's children, her granddaughter but also by the socialist mayor of Andoain Maider Laínez, the former rector of the UPV Manu Montero and the director of the Memorial Center for Victims of Terrorism Florence Dominguez.

Domínguez has been in charge of collecting the mailbox attached to one of the trees next to the sculpture of Ibarrola that the Pagaza family placed so that situations of violence and persecution suffered by the residents of Andoain, the municipality in the that in May 2000

the columnist for EL MUNDO José Luis López de Lacalle

was also murdered .

The removal of the mailbox -with a writing inside- has corroborated the intention of the Pagaza family to put an end to this annual tribute, although they will continue to promote initiatives to remember Joseba and defend the democratic values ​​that led him to confront ETA and its environment until he was

shot twenty years ago

.

A commitment to freedom that both Maite Pagaza and Fernando Savater have highlighted today and that is the common thread of the exhibition that will open next Wednesday at the Vitoria Memorial Center.

Pagaza has warned of the "serious responsibilities" of the nationalist left in the "industrial production" of terror that resulted in almost 900 deaths, 400 of them unresolved.

And he has demanded the continuity of the civic commitment in the "post-terrorism" with an ETA that has disappeared but which, as Savater has also stressed, maintains its ideology with an enormous capacity for political influence of EH Bildu in Spanish politics.

Pagaza has highlighted the "political significance" of

the victims of terror,

denounced that no ETA prisoner has provided information to clarify the almost 400 unpunished deaths and demanded that the truth about what happened during 40 years of terrorism be transmitted to young people.

In addition, Pagaza recalled Otegi's words before his followers in Eibar in October 2021 about the "prisoners for budgets" agreement with Sánchez and the legal changes he intends to release the 150 ETA members still imprisoned.

The act of remembrance for Joseba Pagazaurtundua was held just two hundred meters from the Daytona bar, where on Saturday, February 8, 2003, the head of the Andoain local police read the newspaper and had a coffee.

The ETA member Gurutz Agirresarobe, with information provided by Iñaki Igerartegi and Ignacio Otaño, entered the premises armed, ordered a coffee at the bar and seconds later killed 'Pagaza' with three shots.

Twenty years after the crime, Igerartegi and Otaño are free and were honored with an 'ongi etorri' in 2018 when they were released from prison.

Agirresarobe is serving a sentence in the Zaballa prison (Álava).

The 'Pagaza' murderer was arrested in 2014 by the Ertzaintza who used the remains of DNA in the Daytona coffee cup as proof of his authorship.

The Supreme Court sentenced him to 32 years in prison;

Fernando Savater has closed the act -in which a representative of the Ego Non association has also participated- defending the freedom and unity of Spain.

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