Fran Balda, known militant of the Abertzale left, dies hit by a car in Etxarri Aranatz
- Fran Balda, 53 years old and known militant of the Abertzale left, died on Saturday after being hit by a car in the village of Etxarri Aranatz.
==Death==Fran Balda died on Saturday night after being hit by a tourism in the Navarra locality of Etxarri Aranatz. The event took place at 22:30 a.m. yesterday evening. The Foral Police investigates the causes of the accident.
The man, 53 years old and neighbour of Arbizu, was a militant of the left abertzale.Fue councilor of the City of Arbizu between 2007 and 2011, as well as a member of the Permanent Commission of the Commonwealth of Sakana. On its own initiative, the Navarre town of Arbizu is twinned with the Palestinian village of Marda, where it was brigadist Balda.
He was arrested in two raids against the "balda Herrira" movement, in which he also participated in 2013 and 2015.En the present, Sare was a militant of Navarra and was working with the Basque Memory in an attempt to clarify the cases of torture in Navarra.
Statements by Sare and Sortu
The Navarra Network dismissed Balda in a statement: “Even if your gap is large, all you have given us is much bigger, Fran!” The representatives of the network have called the news a "tremendous blow," in reference to the Republicans. “You have accompanied your courage and your courage to always advance in all the ups and downs of life. Now it’s up to others, with your teachings, to move forward; it’s not going to be easy,” they said. The relatives of Balda have been asked to send “the hottest hug and the most sensitive kiss.”
Sortu has also highlighted the "great pain" that this news has caused on the left Abertzale via Twitter. "We have been left with an indefatigable militant, one of those who has always fought for the freedom of the prisoners and for this people," he added.
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