Idoia Zabalza has stated that the Spanish government prefers to reward torture rather than truth and justice.
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Mikel Zabalza’s family has confirmed that the promotion of vigilante Arturo Espejo Valero is a “misdemeanor” that, in addition to obliterating any hope of clarifying what happened, “makes it very clear that we are on the same point that we ended up being 37 years old, in front of a wall they won’t let break down”. In the words of Idoia Zabalzathe Spanish government has preferred to reward torture rather than truth and justice, and “align itself with the United Nations Principles on Victims”.
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.
According to the official version, Mikel Zabalza drowned in the Bidasoa River, in Endarlatsa, while trying to flee from the Guardia Civil. The family has always maintained that he died of torture in the Civil Guard barracks in Intxaurrondo.
Arturo Espejo Valero was precisely the vigilante who led the arrest and interrogation of Mikel Zabalza in Intxaurrondo.
The Zabalza Garate family, the Mikel Zabalza Gogoan platform, the network of the martyrs of Navarre and the Junta del Valle de Aezkoa offered a press conference this morning in Orbaizeta that served, among other things, to show closeness and support for their relatives .
The Mikel Zabalza Gogoan platform He has asked to move from words to deeds, to release the documents of the Zabalza case and to acknowledge and repair the damage caused. “The impunity enjoyed by torturers is total and that re-victimizes and thus detracts from coexistence,” he added.
The Network of the Tortured of Navarre, for its part, has indicated that “it is not ethical to acknowledge and fix on the one hand and promote and decorate on the other”. Likewise, he has stressed that “enough is enough” and that they will not let “such barbarity” go unnoticed.
The Aezkoa Valley Board announced that it has begun the process of declaring the people involved in the Zabalza case “persona non grata”.
Source: EITB
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