They display the photo of one of the ETA members who attacked the T-4 of Barajas in the Basque language race

Josean Izarra Vitoria

Victoria

Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-12:23

The Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) has denounced that the start of the Korrika - the race that promotes the use of Basque - has been used again to display the photo of an ETA member.

One of the participants in this march organized by the AEK platform and which has special coverage by EiTB has shown the photo of Mikel San Sebastián, one of the ETA members who participated in the attack on T-4 in Barajas on Saturday 30 December 2006.

"This is how this year's 'korrika' has begun in Urrugne," Covite has denounced on social networks with television images in which the photograph of Mikel San Sebastián can be seen at the front of the Korrika group led by children.

Covite has repeatedly warned during the editions of this race for Basque about the presence of acts of tribute and remembrance to ETA members with the exhibition of his photographs.

The Navarrese People's Union (UPN) has also spoken out about the first appearance of a photo of a person convicted of terrorism in this 23rd edition of the race that runs through the Basque Country, the south of France and Navarra in 11 days.

"The appearance of people carrying posters with photographs of ETA terrorists is a common occurrence in the Korrika and it is evident that the organizer of the race, AEK, does not seem to care about this fact," denounced the party chaired by Javier Esparza.

The repeated presence of photographs of ETA members in the 2022 edition caused the Basque Government to also denounce that it is "an affront to coexistence."

Victim groups urged the organizers to condemn the use of these images and to try to prevent them without obtaining a response to their complaints.

The Korrika celebration has special coverage by EiTB, the Basque public radio television controlled by the PNV.

Since the start of the race in Irún yesterday, Thursday, EiTB has streamed the development of the race live 24 hours a day, in addition to broadcasting its departure and arrival on the channel in Basque.

The television itself has purchased three kilometers of the race and has provided a bus converted into a mobile set that will hold half a dozen parties along with the race in various locations in the Basque Country.