The Basque Parliament’s police abuse committee recognizes another 93 victims

The Basque Parliament’s committee for the assessment of politically motivated violence, known as police abuse, presented its annual report in the Basque Parliament this Wednesday, which includes the recognition of another 93 people as victims. Moreover, he denounced that, in the absence of forensic teams, the Commission has stopped its activities for the first time in four years, because its opinions are necessary for the resolution of each file.

Of the 93 victims recognized in the report, 75 has suffered abuse or torturea total of nine people receive bullet impacts whose authorship corresponds to members of the State Security Corps and Forces or parapolice groups, with the first six resulting in death and the other three seriously injured.

Similarly, six people have faced police aggression during riots or demonstrations, and another person was seriously assaulted with an attempted kidnapping.

Of the eight people who died, two were in police custody, one of them in the police car and another in police stations; Two other people were seriously injured as a result of the bomb attack by parapolice groups. The total number of victims of parapolice groups is four. The first two are victims of the reported bombing, the other two of gunfire.

The lawyer Juana Balmaseda and the professor Jon Mirena Landa presented the annual report of the Assessment Commission, established by Law 12/2016, for the recognition and compensation of victims of human rights violations in the context of politically motivated violence in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country between 1978 and 1999 .

On the other hand, the Valuation Committee has denounced that after drawing up this annual report last July, it has entered a phase of paralysis in its ability to resolve new cases. “There are no forensic teams at the moment and the Commission has stopped for the first time in four years because its opinions are needed in each of the files,” they stressed.