39 have been carried out in Pasaia Bay since the Spanish police killed four members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands on Wednesday. The UPV/EHU Unesco Human Rights Chair has produced an official report. Ramón Sola de Naiz gets the report and provides details. According to him, what happened that night was "execution without judgment."

Lakua received the report three years ago, in 2020. Until this month, however, families have not been aware of it. Nor has it been officially presented. The relatives of the victims met on 3 March with a commission made up of government technicians in which they received the report. Families do not understand how this document has spent three years in a "drawer".

Contradictions in official version

The official version said that Jose Mari Izura, Pedro Mari Isart, Rafael Delas and Dionisio Aizpuru died as a result of a shooting between commanders and police. Officially, after the Police stopped, the commanders shot and after those shots came the police. However, according to one witness, no stop was heard there, only live rifle sounds. In total, 113 bullets were found in four bodies.

In this week’s ARGIA magazine you can read the interview by Pello Aizpururi Miel A. Elustondo. His brother Dionysus was one of those killed that night in Pasaia. In the interview, the police said they were in the top of the rocks. One of the shots of Delas (Txapas) entered the nape and left the front ascending, as confirmed by the results of the autopsy of Paco Etxeberria. "How will it be possible for the cops to shoot from the top down and Boinas to pick up the nut's shot upwards?" Aizpuru said. "In addition, the police told the judge that they had several photographs showing the commanders' shots, but this photo report never came to the judge's hands, although this test was repeatedly requested."

That night, they used Rosa Jimeno as a bait. The police tortured and forced him to contact the commanders. Members waited for hundreds of police officers, including the Spanish Police GMO, from Guadalajara (Special Operations Group). "Getting them out of Guadalajara means they had the time they wanted to fully organize and prepare this operation," says Aizpuru.

The report states that the State, through the Justice Administration, should take over the investigation, but that it extended the procedure "until it failed". "Effective research would clear up doubts and learn the truth."

Police identification "impossible"

Three months after the killings, the judge filed the case. It was reopened in 2000, on the initiative of a particular indictment, which was later sponsored by the Azpeitia City Hall. The same is repeated throughout the study: it is "impossible" to identify the police officers who participated in the operation. In view of this, the report states that "it makes no sense to say that it is impossible to identify precisely the authorities that led the Pasaia operation and who participated directly or indirectly in it, taking into account the planned and planned nature of the operation".

Cannot be named a victim of state violence

The case is now open. On March 28, Joseba Merino, the only member of the command who survived the massacre, will try to identify the police who participated in it. Since the case is open, at the moment they cannot appoint victims of state violence to the four deaths, as the Basque law does not allow them to do so during the investigation period.

This Saturday, in Azpeitia, an act is to be carried out asking for clarification. In it, the relatives of the victims will make statements about the report they have just received.