Germán Rodríguez's tombstone is dressed in red carnations
- In Pamplona/Iruña, Germán Rodríguez and Joseba Barandiaran have been honoured and congratulated for their work in favour of the workers’ movement. They have also shown their solidarity with Palestine, in the annual meeting of the sanfermines in Pamplona/Iruña.
In order to prevent the red carnation from wilting "never", Germán Rodríguez and Joseba Barandiaran have been honored on Roncesvalles Street in Pamplona. It has been 46 years since 8 July 1978, when the National Police opened fire in the bullring and later, in the street riots, killed Rodríguez. Three days later, Barandiaran was killed in Donostia-San Sebastián, in protest at the murder of Rodríguez at the hands of his partners. They ask for truth, justice and reparation.
As five years ago, a complaint has been filed in the courts this year to investigate the 1978 event. “The Parliament of Navarra and the City of Pamplona have approved a motion to recognize that the events of the Sanfermines of 78 are crimes against humanity committed by Franco during the Transition.” Thus, Article 2 of the Spanish Democratic Memory Act states that crimes against humanity are imprescriptible. That would be the way to overcome the 1977 amnesty law, according to the promoters.
They have also reminded the group’s founder, Presa Zubilwaukee, and they have shown their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Rodríguez has been honored among aurresku, bertsos and songs. The aurresku has been danced by Irene Arauko, and Josu Sarasate and Mikel Legorburu, the three wounded in the sanfermines of 78, respectively, have sounded. In addition, rapper Mikel Lasarte and rapper La Furia have also participated in the event.
The importance of memory
This year it was the members of the Youth Movement of the Old Party who paid tribute to Rodríguez. They have stressed that it is “essential” to build a memory that claims “its people, its heroes, the real ones, its classes and those of its people” so that it does not remain in the past: “We want today’s and tomorrow’s generations, beyond the neighborhood and the neighborhood, to meet people like you and be proud of you.”
They have highlighted Rodríguez's contribution since the anti-Franco regime and the labor movement: “With your life you paid for the wishes of so many expropriated.” In addition, they recalled that the streets and squares of Pamplona have changed "a lot" and have remembered the book El espacio de la fiesta y subversion (The place of the party and the subversion): “What you helped explain in the book is the step towards an incipient turistification. The neighborhood’s shops are now betting houses.”
The young people referred to the wall built this year in tribute to Rodríguez: “The walls and cantons continue to reclaim your memory and your dreams from this trail to the wall of Deskalzos Street.”
Long live Germán! The event has ended with cries and applause, and with the performance of the musician Fermin Balentzia singing the Memorial: “Condemned without punishment, when the people of justice? You are a red carnation that has flourished in our heart.”
1978ko uztailaren 8an poliziak German Rodríguez gaztea tiroz hil zuen Iruñeko zezen plazatik gertu. San Fermin tragiko haietatik 30 urte pasa dira eta Josu Chueca historialaria bere bizitza ikertzen ari da. German ez zegoen kasualitatez barrikaden lehen lerroan,... [+]
1978ko uztailaren 8an gertatutakoa estatuaren krimena izan zela azpimarratu dute SF78 Gogoan plataformako kideek, aurretiaz ongi antolatutako estatu krimena.
Sanferminetan 1978ko inpunitatea salatzeko balkoietan jarritako pankarten ardura bere egin du kolektiboak, eta "estatua kalumniatzeagatik" deklaratzera deitutako herritarren kontrako diligentziak ixteko eskatu.
Begoña Zabala (Algorta, Basque Country, 1950) reached Iruñea in 1977 and was a first-hand witness of the police attack in the bullring and outside it. She is a lawyer by profession, a member of the committee for establishing what took place, and she has... [+]
I don’t know exactly when this article will see light, but I imagine that by the time it comes out, the act of July 8, 2018 will take place in memory of the 40th anniversary of the death of Germán Rodríguez.
I have no doubt that the Town Hall Square will be filled to the... [+]
Egia, justizia eta ordaina exijitu dute igande honetan milaka lagunek Iruñean 1978 Sanferminetako gertakariak eta German Rodriguez oroitzeko egindako ekitaldian.
