Intxaurrondo Headquarters, 26 November 1985.
Someone very important entered the room. I felt it instantly. Perhaps because of the silence that was made around them, or because of the style of servility that was taken. He stood in front of me… He took the
hood off… You know who I am, he asked me.
“Yes. You're Galindo.
- Are your commanders doing some follow-up?
No, not at all.
“So why do you know me?”
“I know you for watching it on TV.
He grabbed me by the testicles and twisted me.
“We’ve brought you here to tell you… So don’t waste your time and let’s start talking… if not, I’m going to twist your testicles until it bursts.
He squeezed my bells and left me torn apart. He threw my hood back and walked away.

Ion Arretxe met Enrique Rodríguez Galindo, then head of the Intxaurrondo Civil Guard, and later imprisoned for torture and murder of Joxi Lasa and Joxean Zabala. Rodriguez Galindo, who was sentenced to 75 years in prison, served 4 years in prison and was released on the grounds of a serious illness.

Intxaurrondo, recently introduced by Ion Arretxe in Madrid. The shadow of the walnut (Intxaurrondo. The shadow of the walnut) is a passage of the book. In 2008, it was reported that Mikel Zabraise was also arrested by the Civil Guard on the night he was arrested. Bring and torture. In the same year, film director Jaime Rosales entrusted him with the role of principal actor of Tyre in the head, a film in which Ion Arretxe reported his arrest in 1985, and in which he was involved. He currently resides in Madrid and is a writer, CARTOONIST, artistic director and writer.

Arretxe was arrested in the early morning of 26 November 1985 by the Civil Guard at the home of his parents in Errenteria, when he was 21 years old. On the same night, Mikel Zabraise, his girlfriend Idoia Aierbe, a cousin of Zabraises, and Ion Arretxe himself were arrested.

The Civil Guard accused them of being part of an ETA command, but, according to Arretxe, he did not know the other three detainees. They arrested Arretxe and took him to the mountain, as well as blows and insults, in a river they shook his head over and over, until he almost drowned. After three days in Carabanchel's Madrid jail, the judge released him without charge.

“I never saw Zebel,” says Arretxe in the book, and I will not be as brave as to secure what happened. But I can imagine, and it's not that much to imagine, that the night they stopped us would take him to the same terrible and dark place where they took me, that they would torture his head on the same river and that he escaped from their hands."

“Zabascension has gone out of their hands”

The civil guard Pedro Gómez Nieto was then in Intxaurrondo and in 1985 he told Juan Alberto Perote, one of the leaders of the Spanish secret services, the CESID: “Zebel has gone out of their hands, stayed in interrogations.” The newspaper El Mundo reported this in 2004.

It appears that shortly after his death a version was invented at the barracks: On the night of his arrest, Zabraise jumped to the Bidasoa when he was heading for a zulo guarded by three civilian guards. To do so, they had their body in a pool of Intxaurrondo, in a bathtub filled with water from the Bidasoa, according to others, and days later it was thrown into the Bidasoa.

However, from the point of view of many specialists, Zabraise’s escape form was amazing. But 25 years later the case was filed and so on.