The EH Bildu coordinator supported the words of Urdaibai rower Iñaki Goikoetxea after winning the La Concha flag, in which he commemorated the people who ‘are not there’, especially his friend and ETA prisoner, Iurgi. Otegi thanked the rower for thinking of the political prisoners.
The lehendakari, Inigo Urkulluregrets the words of the general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, about the video of the Urdaibai rower, who in the statements he made after the victory in the Bandera de la Concha he remembered and believed the ETA prisoners that this It is neither ‘coexistence’ nor ‘responsibility with the past’.
“Unfortunately, some still have a long way to go,” the Lehendakari said via social networks a day after representatives of various political parties and groups of victims of terrorism criticized Otegi for his words.
Last Sunday, Urdaibai won the Bandera de La Concha 2023 and after the final victory, the Urdaibai rower, Iñaki Goikoetxea, in statements to ETB at the end of the regatta, remembered the “people who are not there” and especially his friend and prisoner of ETA Iurgi hoped that they would ‘be home’ next year.
He was referring to Iurgi Garitagoitia, who was sentenced to 44 years in prison by the National Court for the murder of businessman Inaxio Uria.
Otegi reposted this video on the social network
Urkullu has joined the criticism, writing: “Coexistence is not this. Responsibility to the past is not this.” The Lehendakari also recalls that in the “small group of rowers present in La Concha last Sunday, there were two orphans because ETA had killed their father.”
Urkullu refers to Arkaitz Díaz, patron of La Donostiarra, the son of Ramón Díaz, a cook in the San Sebastián Naval Command who was murdered by ETA in 2001, and Naroa Leonet, daughter of Josu Leonet, an employee at the Electra company who also was murdered. this year.
In his message, the Lehendakari also expresses his memory of Inaxio Uria and expresses his support to family and friends and to all victims of violence.
Source: EITB
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