The anniversary coincides with the release of a report elevating the police operation to “extrajudicial execution” and with a lineup for which the sole survivor, Joseba Merino, will be called up on the 28th.
Today a grand and heartfelt event took place in the market square of Azpeitia tribute to the four members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos murdered by the Spanish police in the pasaia ambushago already 39 years.
It happened on March 22, 1984, around 10:30 PM. the azpeitiarras Dioni Aizpuru And Pedro Mari Isartand the people of Pamplona Raphael Delas And Jose Mari Izura They were shot dead by the National Police. They received a total of 113 bullets. After 39 years, no one has yet been brought to justice for those events and it is the tireless struggle of the deceased’s next of kin, both on the streets and in the courts, that has ensured that what happened is not forgotten.
Speakers at today’s event, led by Laxaro Azkune, included Arantxa Isart, the sister of Pedro Mari Isart, and Pello Aizpuru, the brother of Dionisio Aizpuru. Both, on behalf of the families, have highlighted the struggle for 40 years to get the truth out, denouncing the impunity that the perpetrators of the massacre have enjoyed and enjoyed all along.
Aizpuru has appealed to the institutional recognitionwithout which the fathers and mothers of the murdered have died, all except his mother, who lives “with the pain of not getting that recognition” for her son who was killed by the police.
Breaking news
This 39th anniversary of the massacre was perhaps one of the most special, as that recognition may be closer than ever after years of struggle. And it is that there have been in these last weeks breaking news about the ambush.
On the one hand the reopening the case in the Provincial Court of Gipuzkoa, which was held in early February a recognition wheel for next March 28, after the sole survivor, Joseba Merino, recognized one of the police officers in a documentary. Precisely, the Pasaiako Sarraskia Argitu Initiative has called for a concentration for the 28th at 10:00 in the courts of San Sebastian.
In contrast, a report whose existence came to light this week, a UPV/EHU report on the events that took place in Pasaia Bay which the Basque government has entrusted to the UPR/EHU UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Public Powers and that concludes that was the operation “extrajudicial execution”.
In the conclusion section, the report states that there has been no effective and exhaustive judicial investigation to clarify the facts. After a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the shooting, the experts believe that “they are all factors that compile a series of factual suspicions that overwhelmingly argue for a police operation escalating into extrajudicial execution.”
Despite the fact that the work, directed by criminal justice professor Jon Mirena Landa, it was handed over to the Basque government in 2020the next of kin of the victims were informed about this investigation at the beginning of this month, as a result of which they showed themselves “very hurt” and also stated this in today’s deed.
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Source: EITB
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