The families were present and for some this recognition came “40 years too late”, but they welcomed it “with satisfaction”. The most emotional moment was experienced when the relatives of four victims entered the stage. The regional government will repeat the law annually.
He Government of Navarre recognized the first one this Thursday 12 victims for acts of political motivation caused by far-right groups or government officials.
Gathered in Baluarte and led by the Minister of Historical Memory, Ana Ollo, have recognized the first twelve victims. Being among them Mikel Arregi and Mikel Zabalza, murdered by the Guardia Civil, in 1979 and 1985 respectively. The families were present and for some this recognition came “40 years too late”, but they welcomed it “with satisfaction”. The regional government will repeat the law annually.
The first victims to be recognized were twelve and the Baluarte event was represented by all of them, in some cases by the victims themselves, in others by their relatives. Music and words accompanied today’s event, a ceremony where expressions of gratitude were heard.
Today was an important event for relatives and victims, who received recognition and compensation from the institutions after ashes “long road”. Despite this, they will continue to demand truth and justice, but they look to the future with hope.
The most emotional moment was experienced when the relatives of four victims entered the stage. Guillermo Mugicain turn, a human rights expert recalled that “the joy that families feel today is based on the pain of what happened.”
Besides Arregi and Zabalza, they have acknowledged it three people wounds by a firearm of various considerations in the environment of the events that took place during the festivities of San Fermin 1978; and another victim that has suffered Serious damage as a result of excessive or misuse of riot control equipment in a police complaint of a later temporal context. The same goes for four other people who suffered physical and psychological violence during their stay detention and two others who were injured separately to attack claimed by far-right groups.
The recognitions were approved two weeks ago by the Recognition and Reparations Commission, and under the protection of the corresponding Foral Law 16/2019 of March 26, a standard approved by Parliament that aims to compensate people exposed to this type of violence that resulted in deaths, injuries and physical or psychological harm as a result of violent, disproportionate and unlawful actions in the aforementioned victim context.
Of all the applications submitted, the Commission rejected four because it considered that the requirements of the current legislation were not met, as indicated by the Navarrese government in a note. The body also explores another 60 files which are at different stages of the procedure.
Source: EITB
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