The PNV senator, who will take the letter from Emilio Aperribay, a survivor of the bombing, to the Senate, reminds that no Spanish government has the responsibility of the rebel army and the Franco government in the attack on the city of Gernika recognized.
Estefania Beltran de HerediaPNV senator, explained on Boulevard de Radio Euskadi that her group will ask the President of the Government of Spain in the Senate, Pedro Sanchez if you intend to do an “act of reparation to the people of Gernika”on the 85th anniversary of the bombing ordered by the rebel army, and why it hasn’t been done until now.
As Senator Jeltzale recalled, “the government of Spain” has not yet acknowledged the responsibility of the rebel army and the Franco government” in the bombing of the population of Bizkaia, on April 26, 1937, during the civil war. However, the German state acknowledged his involvement, “although it was 60 years later”, as the Condor Legion of Germany had the Nazis the bombs from their planes.
The “act of recovery” can also be “an .” contain request for forgiveness“for the suffering caused, in the words of the senator, “exacerbated by that attempt to perpetuate a lie and silence him for so many years” by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco Official recognition by the government of Spain would be an “important step” for the survivors “and for the entire Basque people and, in general, for the population”, as well as an essential step to “consolidate a democratic society”.
Beltrán de Heredia has acknowledged that post-dictatorship governments “are not responsible as such”, but has emphasized that in a state “there is an order and an achievement”, and that the government of Spain should do “the same” as the president of Germany, Roman Herzogin 1997. “I think it’s a way to to close wounds and mend that pain that is still open“, said.
Asked about the stability of the government of Spain after the possible withdrawal of support from the pro-independence forces if they assume responsibility for the spy case of Pegasus, Beltrán de Heredia has underlined that the PNV “has an outstretched hand”. Senator Jeltzale has asked for “transparency” and “that there be a deep and intense investigation, that the truth must also come out and that the matter be cleared up with hair and ink”, but she has not wanted to link the case to her support for Sánchez, as her party cannot lose sight of the importance of Basque citizenship.
Source: EITB
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