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EKAITZ Samaniego The others?
  • EKAITZ Samaniego is imprisoned while I write these lines, but he will be ex-prisoner when he publishes the text. The last time I saw her was on the street on January 14, 2012. The Ertzaintza led him after a mass demonstration, after staying for two weeks in secret, in a central area of Donostia-San Sebastián. Between the anger, love and tears of helplessness of hundreds of citizens.
Z. Oleaga @zoleaga1 2020ko urtarrilaren 06a
El Corte Inglesen kateatu zen Samaniego, bere espetxeratzea salaketa ekintza masibo bihurtuz. Argazkia: Hala Bedi.

The experiences of then have stuck in our hearts to all of us who participated in this disobedient campaign of protection and denunciation: friends, fellow militants, Gasteiztarras solidarity, Domi, Txiro and other relatives. By then, the initiative for Aurore Martin had passed, for the young people of Orereta who would come later and the village walls of Donostia, Ondarroa, Iruñea, Loiola and Vitoria, among others. These experiences stopped before their liberating faculties got sufficiently excited.

It is located on Samaniego Street. Having served in full and spatially the sentence of eight years ' imprisonment. The conviction was imposed by the Spanish National Court and ratified by the Supreme Court (TS). As proof, for example, a t-shirt with red stars (t-shirt with star; therefore, SEGI; therefore, terrorist). The storm will have no forgiveness, no repair, no recognition. By the time you read this, however, many people will be in the streets of Vitoria-Gasteiz and in the Gaztetxe, as long as democracy and democrats allow it, amen. Samaniego is on the street, but has stayed in the interior of 250 members.

Time goes against the consequences of the conflict. The departure of Samaniego will further raise the high average age of Basque political prisoners. At the conference offered by former sick prisoner Abetxuko José Ramón López de Abetxuko on the campus of the University of Vitoria-Gasteiz, there were a large number of young people – I would say – hearing people – driven by political media inquisition. What are the Basque political prisoners for these young people who have not experienced the armed conflict, what kind of political or emotional bond can they feel with them? At least that the previous generations that we share with the prisoners and fleeing the struggles of other times or simply the experiences, let us not let them perish in prison, in exile or in oblivion. There is a historical and collective responsibility there, each one will know to what extent and how it is asked. Let us celebrate in recent days the freedom recovered by Agurtzane Delgado, Jon Urretabizkaia, Xabier Tximeno and Ekaitz Samaniego; let us fight for the freedom of all others. Much more will be needed, but, at least for the moment, we will fill the streets of Bilbao and Baiona on 11 January.