Journalist Enekoitz Esnaola, interviewed in Ziburu (Lapurdi), reveals his dissatisfaction at the lack of political context in the film: “What is explained is what I think of hard facts. I took risks, and this is not the result I expected, but I'm not going to get into your job. They have done what they believe, I have another vision and another idea of that work, but I say it with all respect.”

He says that above all he wanted to explain that everything that happened had a political explanation and that when he decided to participate in the project he wanted to explain it: “It has been a political conflict, with its harsh, crude and irreversible consequences. I wanted to demonstrate this to Spanish society. Don't think, in some way, that in those events someone gave pleasure. Political actions were those with political objectives. I wanted to prove it. And when we enter that dynamic into such a harsh and violent struggle, on the one hand and on the other, we lose empathy with the other.”

He has also acknowledged in the film that it was linked to the assassination of the Mayor of Galdakao, Victor Legorburu, who was murdered by ETA in 1976, and that by asking whether he had any specific purpose with that recognition, he says no, that they worked for long hours, and that in that context that issue came.

Two issues in Spain

Urrutikoetxea has two disputes open in the Spanish State, one relating to the question of the bars of the people and the other, the ETA attack on a Civil Guard headquarters in Zaragoza in 1987, in which eleven people died. In the first, the prosecutor’s office asks for two years in prison, and in the second, 2,300 years accused of having ordered an attack from ETA’s leadership.

The Paris courts admit that the Spain of Urrutikoetxea is tried for these disputes, but in the interview he explains that the National Court of Spain has not yet set the date of the trials. On the contrary, Urrutikoetxea said that he was neither a manager nor had anything to do with the attack.

In short, he also talks about the current political situation and considers it an interesting time, “also mobile, and has seen the speed and progress of the Abertzale left. But that should not blind us. Although there is a progressive government in Madrid again, the situation will not be easy; if there is another type of government, it will be much more difficult.”

He considers it key to give the citizens the opportunity to “build the foundations of the house; citizenship must feel part of this long process”.