Four young people were arrested by the French police on 22 June for allegedly painting in inmobiliarias.Kazeta.eus explains that at the end of the day they were released after the mobilization made before the house of the people of Senpere. About two hundred people have approached the demonstration under the motto “Leave me alone, where à la répression, liberates the detainees!”. EH Bai, the Socialist Council, LAB and the Xuti Gazte dynamic regretted the arrests.

The Senpere Bai coalition has denounced the 2 violent arrests through a press release posted on Facebook." As he pointed out in his press release, the French State is following "in the direction of always", totally rejecting the existence of a peace process and "applying the repressive reworking of old times". He points out that four young detained senperos are part of the life of the municipality, adding that one of the detainees is a local counsellor.

Against speculation

Anti-speculation campaigns have been carried out and will be carried out in various municipalities in the Northern Basque Country, such as the one to be held on 25 June in Ainhoa or the one held in Bayona on 20 November 2021, in defense of the right to housing.

Senpere Bai denounces that the French State "criminalises" an active youth concerned with the future, rather than finding immediate and concrete answers to the housing problem facing the Basque Country.

In April another four young Labortans were arrested in Hazparn, Itsasun and Bordeaux, together with a survey launched in November 2021. In this case, young people were also accused of painting on real estate.