Joxe Arrangi recalls the 43rd anniversary of death in Zizurkil
- On Sunday they celebrated an act of remembrance of the zizurkildarra killed under torture. They call for more means to recognize and repair torture.
At the event held on Sunday in Zizurkil, Naiz received a request for "public recognition" for tortured persons.
Despite the fact that the officially documented cases of torture are 5,379, I have stressed that there are more cases, firstly the citizens of Iparralde are missing. “We all know that the true dimension of torture outweighs those numbers and that it continues to influence beyond a few numbers,” they stress.
“We are faced with a systematic, never punished crime that has been carried out for many years in police stations of the National Police, the Civil Guard and the Ertzaintza,” they say.
43 years
On 13 February 1981, ETA member Joxe Arrangi Izagirre died in Carabanchel hospital from torture. He was tortured at the General Directorate of Security in Madrid for nine days.
The body was transferred to Zizurkil, but the Spanish police banned it. At the last moment, the attendees removed the cover to see the face. That night, a number of people went to the cemetery, took the dead body out of the grave, took him to a house in the cemetery, took pictures that showed his torture and buried him again.
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