- On arrival at the Vitoria-Gasteiz bus station, three patrols were waiting for him during the first weekend of September. The Ertzaintza assured that it had prohibited leaving the area of Biarritz-Donostia until 5 September, and forced citizens to take the bus. It has not received a letter of prohibition.
The young Labortano Julen Arozena (invented name) has told ARGIA what was collected on the first weekend of September. Arozena, a member of the popular movement, travelled last weekend from Lapurdi to Vitoria-Gasteiz, where he was arrested. In the occupied Errekaleor district of Euskera classes, and to get there, he took the bus Donostia-Gasteiz.
“When I arrived at the Vitoria station, three Ertzainan cars were waiting for me and they sent me back on the bus to Donostia,” explains Arozena. The Ertzainas linked their intervention to the G7, although both the top and the counter had ended a week earlier. They informed him that this was a ban on mobility which lasted for several days: “I was told that I could not leave the radio between Donostia and Biarritz until 5 September.” It did not receive any official notification of the ban, nor was it shown at the appropriate time. “Nothing has come to my house either,” says the lab.
After the G7, “to better control”
Arozena lived with tension the event of the Vitoria station: “Surrounded at all times, people were walking close to me, and by half an hour I got into the next bus.” The Ertzainas told him that they wanted to “control him well” and that the prohibition of moving beyond Donostia-San Sebastian established it to do it “better”. Upon arriving at Donostia on the return bus, the young woman had a patrol waiting for her “controlling if I would leave”.
The Labortano believes that on the way from the town to Donostia-San Sebastian the police continued, as he moved in his car, and when he saw the Donostia-San Sebastian stop taking the bus from Vitoria-Gasteiz they passed the warning to the Alavesa capital. On 12 September we spoke to Arozena, who says that she continues to see continual monitoring and other control measures in her environment.
In contrasts, five controls
In addition, the Labortano suffered a close police persecution throughout his journey: “In the week of the counter-summit I passed five gendarmes controls, one hour. Two of them recorded me, put my hands on my foals, insulted me ... It was very controlled. Countryman police followed them all the time. I felt I couldn’t leave the village.” The 29-year-old believes he is being harassed and controlled by being a eta militant.