The initiative, which comes from Catalonia with the help of the Iridia and Novact associations in the field of human rights, aims at the Spanish Government finally banning rubber balls because they are uncontrollable and lethal. The Ertzaintza, the Foral Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra no longer use this type of weapons, but the National Police and the Civil Guard still maintain it. The initiative has been brought to Parliament by EH Bildu, while Geroa Bai and Podemos have joined the coalition’s request. Navarra Suma y PSN no. The Government of Catalonia has given its support to the initiative of the Government of Catalonia.

In the Basque Country, thousands of people have been injured by rubber balls and several of them have lost their eyes. One of the wounded is Aingeru Zudaire, a neighbor of Villava: On a general strike in 2012, the National Police launched a rubber ball very close to the Paseo de Sarasate and handed it over to the eye. Since then he's half blind from his eyes that hurt him. In today ' s initiative, lehendakari has joined the request for a hearing and explained his case.

The case of Zudaire is still open. After the trial, the 2014 sentence acquitted the police who shot the ball because, in the judgment, there was insufficient evidence that it had been launched by the police. However, it was assumed that the launch was carried out by the Police, which responded with record time.

The most famous case in Euskal Herria in the last decade is that of Iñigo Cabacas, the young man. The ertzaina that shot the ball was killed by the Ertzaintza in 2012, and in the 2021 ruling the ertzaina that shot the ball was not condemned, specifically because it was not known who the ertzaina that shot, according to the apaia. The police who led the group of Ertzainas who committed the aggression were sentenced to two years in prison for a crime of murder.

In this video Ahotsa.info you can see the summary of today's event in Pamplona. Further information on damage and movements against rubber balls can be found in the ARGIA Rubber Balls Channel.