Sanfermines 78 Gogoan! and the Federation of Peñas de Pamplona have come together to reiterate the events that took place in the Sanfermines of 1978, when Rodriguez was shot dead by the police, and to proclaim “truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence”. to demand.
The Federation of Peñas de Pamplona and the Sanfermines 78 Gogoan! have claimed in 44th anniversary of the murder of Germán Rodríguez the truth about those events, but a “memory necessarily implying justice” in the face of impunity.
Several hundred people and numerous political personalities, including the Minister of Civil Relations, Ana Ollo, gathered this Friday for the vigil in the center of the Navarrese capital commemorating the young man from Pamplona who was murdered by Police shooting on July 8, 1978, at 24 years old; a death that led to serious incidents that caused the suspension of the Sanfermines.
The events were followed by protests and strikes across Euskal Herria and three days later, July 11in one of those protests, in San Sebastian the police shot and killed Joseba Barandiaran19 years old, who was also commemorated today.
In the tribute in which there was no shortage of whistles against UPN, Fermín sang Valencia and an emotional Mikel Legorburu, injured in one eye the day he had come to visit the Pamplona festivities.
Those in attendance repeatedly chanted Germán’s name as well as cries for justice and against a “murderous police”, while at the same time being accused of being “primarily politically responsible for this state crime”. Rodolfo Martin Villawho want to bankrupt the promoters, for which they follow the call via Argentina for the “impunity” they have denounced in Spain and which “humiliates and rotten” the political system.
In this sense, in a statement read in Spanish and Basque, the Federation of Peñas and SF 78 Gogoan! They argue that the death of Germán Rodríguez, like that of Joseba Barandiarán in San Sebastián, is part of “a series of general and systematic violations of human rights, of a situation of oppression and institutional violence.”
They have therefore “appealed to our politicians” so that they Democratic Memory ActThat Congress is expected to approve Monday will be a “missed opportunity” because it fails to recognize “unrecognized truth, free access to justice and comprehensive compensation for victims.”
For this reason they have demanded “truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence” when the “crimes against humanity committed for decades by the Franco regime go unpunished” and in the same sense they have immigration policy with “results as bloody and terrible” as Melilla’s as what happened at their border they confirmed, “are not deaths, they are murders”.
For the first time, and with the intention to continue in the future, this year all activities organized around July 8 are jointly organized by the Sanfermines 78 Gogoan! and the Federation of Peñas de Pamplona.
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Source: EITB
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