The case of Mikel Zabraise comes to Europe in two ways. On the one hand, EH Bildu, PNV, ERC, Junts and Anticapitalists will raise a number of issues. They will ask the Commission what they know and what they think about these torture and whether there are no mechanisms in the Spanish State to ensure that no one is tortured in the arrests.
The Court of Strasbourg has on 11 occasions condemned Spain for not investigating torture and in seven of them, as judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska, pronounced on the desirability of Grande-Marlaska being a Spanish Minister for the Interior.
On the other hand, Podemos will also take the issue to Europe on its own in the Euroleague. It will ask whether the non-investigation of torture in police stations is a democratic norm and, at the same time, it will raise the need for a law allowing the documents reserved to be dissected. In fact, the Official Secrets Act of the time of Franco states that in order to uncover a document, the first thing the Spanish Government has to do is to give it authorisation and that what it wants to keep secret is not declassified.
Where is Miguel? We can affirm that to close the open wound raised by the documentary, truth and justice are necessary to “ensure that no violence is repeated.”
When we talk publicly about torture, we realize how much society embraces the opinion that the “system” itself puts into effect on this issue. It uses a wide range of ministers and advisers, judges and experts, all with the help of the organic media, of course. And it has to... [+]
From time to time life brings memories that you would like to forget. Today I've stayed with Jakan for coffee, because then we have a colloquium on Xabier Mendiguren's book "It's been very hard", and I've realized that I've never asked him anything about that police statement he signed... [+]
The terrible events in March 1999 in the Aiztondo Valley were not isolated attacks, but were part of the Spanish State’s other repressive step against the Basque Country. Under the doctrine “Everything is ETA” (Everything is ETA), we were arrested and tortured violently in... [+]