The Askatasuna organization has called for a mobilisation on Tuesday in the Old Town of Vitoria-Gasteiz to support the three detained young people accused of having beaten an ertzaina out of their work. The detainees are 21, 22 and 25 years old and the struggle took place on Cutlery Street during the celebrations on the eve of Santiago Day. The three detainees have been released, although they have not passed before the judge and for the time being they have not been charged with any charges. The Free Organization against Repression is part of the Coordinator for Activities.

"The politicians who harass Euskal Herria and the slaves who work day by day to perpetuate this persecution have rapidly disseminated their version of what happened. They stressed the zippered character of the provocative who provoked the events and considered it as the motivation of the bar's controversy, magnifying and distorting in a false way an infrequent fact, in order to increase its gravity and impact and to make political profit", they denounced.

The event has been contextualized in what happened during the Mutriku holidays. In the town of Gipuzkoa, an ertzaina refused to take part in popular party food, so the political representatives of the Basque Government are fighting the Basque Left. The topic has been very media and, for example, El Diario Vasco made the following words from Erkoreka the main number of lines on Saturday: "The Abertzale left has to be more demanding in cases like Mutriku's ertzaina boycott."

The municipal groups PNV, PSE-EE, PP and Elkarrekin of Vitoria-Gasteiz express their "strongest rejection" of the facts. EH Bildu, in addition to condemning "all kinds of aggression", said that they are waiting for clarification.

The Spanish hymn at the Ertzaintza police station

The off-duty agent denounced that he had been punched and "zipaio, what are you doing on this street?" They screamed at him. The Ertzaintza hits one of the detainees who the police carried to the car on a note opened by the Askatasuna organization. In addition, they forced the youth to have the lights on during the arrest and to beat them at the door of the cell so that they would not fall asleep. They were also forced to listen to the Spanish anthem. "In addition to justifying a profession that uses violence or threat to persecute the Basque People, they want to sell us as victims." They say that this is not the first time in Euskal Herria there is a scandal in the bar environment, "with the excuse of what has happened as a police force".

In the mobilisation they have expressed their "total solidarity and support" to the three detainees, they have denounced the attitude of the politicians who "are manipulating the facts".

"The government of Spain and its slave, the autonomous government, are carrying out a campaign of legitimization and normalization of the police forces. In this sense, from the anti-repressive organization, the only way for the Basque Public Worker to cope with harassment is the organization", they point out.