The Day of Solidarity, which is celebrated every year in September, takes the form of a march this year and focuses on denouncing the situation of the prisoner Unai Parot. In recent days it has been known that the request for a ban has come to Madrid. The Villacisneros Foundation, led by María San Gil, former president of the Basque pp, and the Judicial Association of the Civil Guard have made the request. The Spanish Government’s delegation to the CAV has forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court of Madrid the request of both associations.

Life imprisonment

In the face of these prohibitions, Sare has shown his support for the march by Arrasate through social networks: “Sare has been calling for the repeal of this law for a long time, because we understand that it is a path to life’s worth.” The citizen movement has warned that it will continue to denounce the application of the emergency measures applied in Catalonia. “It’s time for solutions. That’s why, on September 18, we will be mobilizing in Arrasate.”

31 years in prison, 31 kilometers on foot

The march was announced on July 20 by the groups Sare and Elkartasuna Eguna de Arrasate. At a hearing they explained why they decided to focus this year’s Solidarity Day on the situation of Unai Parot: “At the moment in Arrasate we have one prisoner, Unai Parot. The maximum penalty in the Spanish State has already been complied with: 30 years. Having served his sentence, he would have to be on the street, but in prison he was tried again for his membership of ETA. They have never done so in the case of Basque prisoners. The law says that no one can be tried again, but Unai was sentenced to another sentence of 11 years in prison, when the Parot doctrine was rejected in Strasbourg.” The Walking March will be 31 kilometers long, one kilometer for each year he is in Parot prison, and will start at midnight in the morning.