- In May 2018, the Social Struggle Week was held in San Sebastian, where the dynamic Bizia Da Handia occupied for a week the building of the Social Security Monetary Guard, closed since 2002. The Ertzaintza identified a single member as responsible for this collective occupation and trial, to be held on 14 May. However, the Ertzaines who identified the member and drafted the injunction have not come to trial and have been delayed for a week.
The Vida Da Mayor initiative, in collaboration with 63 social movements and trade unions, celebrated last May in Donostia the week of social struggles. The public building number 6 of Idiakez Street was occupied and, as indicated at the time of its occupation, a week later the occupation was terminated. The trial was scheduled for Tuesday morning and since the dynamics he has been called to show solidarity on the street and denounce the trial.
The trial is delayed because the Ertzaintza was not quoted to testify
During the occupation, one morning agents of the Ertzaintza went to the headquarters and identified a person as responsible for it. However, the Ertzaines who identified this person and performed the arrest have not come to testify at the trial, as they have not been called. For this reason, Judge María José Rúa Portu has postponed the trial one week after the judgment was held.
The complainant acknowledges that the building was unused, but...
The complaint against the occupation was filed by the provincial director of Monetary Surveillance of the Social Security. However, it has been the secretary himself who has come to testify at the trial. He acknowledges that the building was unoccupied and had no use. The argument put forward to justify this situation was that it was in the process of auctioning and that authorisations to transfer certain plants to local authorities made it difficult to sell.
"They want to individualize a collective struggle"
The attorney for the member of the Vida Da Mayor initiative being tried has stated that this occupation was collective, within a week of initiatives, and that they intend to individualize the collective responsibility by attributing the occupation to a single member absent one morning. In this regard, he stressed that this was a "temporary occupation" and that this judgment "makes no sense". The lawyer has asked the provincial secretary of Monetary Surveillance of the Social Security who has declared as a whistleblower why the administrative procedure for these cases was not opened and why criminal proceedings were resorted to.
Judgment in Basque
The defendants have requested that the trial be held in Euskera, and have interviewed the translator of the work.
