Beñat Armentia (1998, Galdakao) was in town throughout the day reporting the general strike that took place on January 30, in the Binke neighbourhood! for the journal.

After eating, Armentia announced the piquet of information. The group of strikers had three cars followed by the Ertzaintza and at one point, an ertzaina pulled out of the car and said in Spanish to the other agents: “Let it stay clean, identify it first you catch.”

“I was recording the sequence from afar, and yet that ertzaina came running towards me, screaming ‘identify’. People gathered around me. Despite the heat of the strikers, I was calm, I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was informed. The agent was very hot. I told him I was willing to identify myself, but that's right, to ask him in Euskera. It's over. It precipitated completely. He told me in Spanish that he would ask for identification seven times, and if for the seventh he would not identify me, he would take me with him.”

When the agent began to hear “one, identify yourself; two, identify...”, Armentia insisted that he was willing to identify himself, but that he had applied for him in Basque. “I speak in the dialect I want,” he told ARGIA that he told him similar phrases.

During this time, another person recorded video behind the crowd. Although he did not record the invaluable mention of the dialect, the video shows that the ertzaina threatens that whoever records the images is committing a crime, and that he says phrases like “I don’t want to speak in Basque” in Basque. Those who were close to him asked him for the plate number, but he did not give it to him.

Asked whether there was any other Ertzaina that knew Euskera in the area, Armentia said that there were three or four, but that they were all quiet.

In addition to language rights, it also violated freedom of information: “If I see that picture on social media, you would get a fine of 2,000 euros,” he was threatened by the unidentified ertzaina.