Azkarraga, who estimates that between 67,000 and 70,000 people took part in the march, has asked the Basque Penitentiary Administration to “have the courage” to opt for “open regime measures”.
The citizens’ network of Sare stated this Sunday that “the political and legal sphere” must listen to the thousands of citizens who marched last Saturday demonstration “a final solution for the prisoners” by ETA without ‘twisting the law’. Moreover, he has asked the Basque Penitentiary Administration for the “courage” to opt for “open regime measures”.
Sare spokespersons Joseba Azkarraga and Bego Atxa carried out this Sunday in Bilbao an assessment of the march called by the citizen network under the motto ‘Behin Betiko konponbidea, elkarbizitza, bakea‘(Absolutely. Resolution, peace, coexistence), asked to “open the cell doors” for ETA prisoners with ordinary law.
In statements to the media, Azkarraga, who has quoted, among other things, says: 67,000 and 70,000 people took part in the marchhas assured that this “impressive figure” must be taken into account “in the political and legal spheres”, because it shows that “an important part of Basque society lacks a definitive solution to the consequences of a conflict that has lasted for decades and has caused our country a lot of suffering.
After ensuring that “the consequences of this conflict must be sealed,” he added that this objective requires that “stop manipulating victims’ pain“, that “they need to have the support, the support and the acknowledgment of that pain.”
Recognition must be, as he noted, “for all victims of all forms of violence,” because “it is not possible that, in the face of equal suffering, the attitude of justice” and its “standards of measurement” are “different.”
Moreover, he has urged seeking “a final solution” to the issue of ETA prisoners, without “twisting any law,” but instead applying the same prison rules as “to the thousands and thousands of “prisoners” who exist among the prisoners as a whole.” the state prisons.
Asks the Basque Penitentiary Administration for boldness
Sare’s spokesperson is convinced that “the solution also lies with the Penitentiary Administration”, from whom he has again asked for “daring” without “looking exclusively at what the right or the extreme right says” and using “a Basque penitentiary model that the Basque parliament itself approved some time ago“.
“What this model does is fundamentally opt for measures in an open regime with already high criminal compliance, as we have a group of prisoners who have usually been serving their first sentence for more than twenty years, and on some days they are on top of that. that a 34-year prison sentence has been served. Therefore, the Basque prison model must also be applied to them in an open regime, because the law, penitentiary regulations and penitentiary regulations allow this,” he emphasized.
Joseba Azkarraga has hoped that this year will be the year of “the final touches”, allowing “a final solution to be found and all the consequences of the conflict to be sealed”. To achieve this, he emphasized, the association needs “not just help on the streets,” but also financial help.
Source: EITB
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