For its part, the Egiari Zor Foundation has denounced in a note that it is “a new emergence that once again shows, and there are already too many, the permanent insult and constant re-victimization to which the victims are subjected , to that of state violence”.
The spokesperson for GDP in the Congress of Deputies, Aitor Esteban, has submitted several questions to the Spanish government “about the promotion of the now Lieutenant General and head of the Civil Guard Support Command, Arturo Espejo, implicated in the death of Mikel Zabalza.” In addition, EH Bildu has requested the appearance before Congress of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to explain the reasons for the promotion.
The foundation Egyptian Zor He denounced in a note that it is “a new promotion that demonstrates once again, and there are already too many, the permanent insult and constant re-victimization to which the victims, those of state violence, are subjected .”
Mikel Zabalza was arrested on November 26, 1985 in Donostia-San Sebastián in an operation that arrested five other people, who were released without charge and denounced torture, and his body was found handcuffed in the Bidasoa River 19 days later.
As reported in a statement, the Basque Group wants to know whether, in the opinion of the government, “anyone involved in a case of torture that culminated in the death of an innocent person deserves promotions and awards” and whether “it considers is that those who were guards of Mikel Zabalza and who gave an official version of what happened that has been shown to be false personify the values that the Guardia Civil claims to defend”.
“One of the guards of Mikel Zabalza in the Intxaurrondo barracks was, according to what the Guardia Civil itself reported, Lieutenant Arturo Espejo at the time,” denounced the PNV.
Similarly, EH Bildu, through an initiative, asks the Spanish government if it considers it “ideal that the most responsible person in one of the darkest cases that occurred within that police force should be found in the leadership of the Guardia Civil “. , as well as the death of Zabalza, a bus driver from Navarre.
The deputy of EH Bildu Jon Inaritu recalls that Espejo was promoted last year and asks the Secretary of State to clarify whether she took this decision after learning that the Basque Government intended to recognize Mikel Zabalza as a victim of police brutality.
“The official version of the disappearance of Mikel Zabalza (after his flight from the Guardia Civil) is clearly false, as evidenced by the opinion of the Basque government,” says the formation, which also recalls the conversations of the captain of the Guardia civil, Pedro Gomez Nietoand the then director of Cesid, Juan Alberto Perotevia some audios hinting at his death in Intxaurrondo after being subjected to torture.
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