Hundreds of people denounce the trial of seven Ernai members as a “police set-up”

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The seven members of the youth organization were arrested by the Ertzaintza on 7 May 2021 in Bilbao. They will be tried on June 15 and will receive fines of more than 20,000 euros and sentences ranging from one year to one and a half years in prison.

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Hundreds of people joined the this Saturday manifestation summoned by Ernai in Bilbao. In the mobilization they have the “police montage” against the seven young people arrested in the capital Bizkaia on May 7, 2021 under a call to action from this youth organisation, and they have claimed that the youth struggle is “worth it”.

The seven young men will be judged on next June 15th and the private prosecution, formed by the Public Prosecution Service and the Ertzainas, demands: fines higher than 20,000 euros and punishment of between a year and a half in prison “We are faced with a new police lineup, faced with another attack on the youth struggle for an alleged crime of assault and wounding of the authority in a full of liesErnai members explained.

under the motto Ez gaituzue geldituko! (You’re not going to stop us!), The demonstration started at 5:30 PM from Plaza Moyúa in Bilbao. The meeting was attended by members of the LAB trade union, the Pensioners’ Movement and various groups involved in labor disputes, among others.

Ernai’s spokeswoman, Ane Alava, has stressed that “nothing will stop the youth of Euskal Herria” and denounced that the trial that will start on June 15 in Bilbao is “a police crackdown”. And it is that, as he recalled, during last year’s mobilizations they took to the streets to… claim their rights and a dignified life of young people, “nothing more”. Therefore, he argues that this cannot be a crime.

These mobilizations took place on May 7, 2021 in the capitals of Hego Euskal Herria. In it, the youth organization wanted to denounce the “emergency” of young people and demand sovereignty and social transformation for a dignified life. In Vitoria and Bilbao, the Ertzaintza arrested eight youths, one in the capital of Alava and the rest in Bizkaia. Ernai recalled that two of the detainees had to… go to the hospital from injuries and injuries caused by the police, while 60 other people who took part in the demonstrations were also injured. “If We Went” beaten“If we were arrested, it was because the Basque government, which is directly responsible for the situation of young people, has no other way to cover up its irresponsibility,” the representatives of the youth organization Ernai said during their performance in April to stop the demonstration of to announce today.

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Source: EITB

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