A commemorative event of the 40th anniversary has been organized by Sor to Xabier Galdano. The event starts with a floral offering in their village, Algorta, Plaza de la Pequeña and Otaegi. It was attended by the daughter of Galdano Karmen and Bego and his grandson Larraitz and Irati, as well as several members of Sor, among them Oihana San Vicente, who closed the event.

Saint Vincent pointed out that while the nationalist left has taken “steps to recognize and alleviate the pain and suffering caused” in the context of the political conflict, in the Spanish state there are those who “deny this violence exercised with total impunity and accept and justify this violence”. He concluded his statements by calling on "the state and its ranks to recognize all the victims resulting from their violence."

Assassination of Xabier Galdano

Egin was the director and CEO of the newspaper in the Northern Basque Country. In 1977 the newspaper stood out both in keeping with the patriotic left and in raising funds for capital expansion. After several arrests, Saint-Jean-de-Luz moved with his wife and several ENAM leaders passed by his house.

He was assassinated on 30 March 1985 by several mercenaries of the LAG in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, where he was a refugee. He attended the demonstration to denounce the attack that took place the previous day at the Café des Pyrenées in Bayonne. The objective was to make the news of the mobilization and take some photos. Before arriving at the Hernani newsroom, his daughter was killed after taking the last photographs with Karmen and Begoña to finish the reel, driving her to the car.He was shot by two men in a Citroen BX car, Nago said.

The LAG claimed responsibility for the murder and subsequently arrested the mercenaries Guy Cantavenera, Alain Parmentier, Jacky Pinard and Bernard Foucher. In the French State, each was sentenced to 20 years in prison and one of them stated that they had been hired by the Spanish police. The Spanish Government, for its part, denied the victims of GAL and BVE the compensations recognized in 2018, which forced them to turn to the European Courts.

Daughters have a living memory of their father

Soy interviewed her daughters Bego and Karmen Galdano. Karmen tells the story of those years: "They tell me that it was twenty years and I believe it, but they did not reach three years. It's been the most intense years of my life, but by far. With very good experiences. We were also with Josu Muguruza, who was from the house. Even in the worst situation, we laughed, we turned away from hard experiences, in the spirit of survival: they won’t dominate us. In our house, with more resources than many young refugees, we organized tributes to all those who were falling. So we did theirs at home, with the help of Josu Muguruza and others, drawing strength from anywhere."

The family has also revolved around the constant struggle of memory; Bego points out that: "We have always known who was behind the LAG, which was invented, funded and supported by state powers. We always knew we had a wall in front of us, but that is why we denounced it every time we could, because someone made a statement or because Felipe González came to Bilbao to avoid publicly falling into oblivion."

Karmen explains that there is "a lot" left to achieve the "independent and Basque Country" that Galdano had in his imagination. In response to this "a lot", Bego adds that he had to drink the bottle of wine he had stored with Santi (Brouard) for Independence Day and explains that they have stored it with the hope of drinking.