This Monday, Joseba Assilon presented his third budget since the Socialist Party of Navarra (PSN) gave EH Bildou the job of mayor of Pamplona. The jewel in Aberzair’s crown is gone and now aims to foster a “new coexistence plan” there. … The mayor himself “encourages mutual respect; “This includes support for all victims of political violence.” Therefore, without naming names, specifying the type of violence or the victims, he announced in the financial statements (approved by plenary session on 27 November, amounting to 293.78 million euros) two nomination grants that “guarantee this attention”.
As this newspaper has learned, the budget proposal is as usual. Items sent to terrorist victim organizations (Covite), another who joined the Egiari Zor Foundation this year, explains the history of the Basque Country and Navarre, especially ETA, which maintains the existence of two opposing sides in a “political conflict” dating back to 1936, caused by Spain and France with “imposition and violence”. Both Kovite and Egiari Zor, which were founded in 2012 shortly after ETA laid down its arms after being harassed by security forces and security services, and echo EH Bildu’s speech in terms of equalizing victims, will receive 3,000 euros to fund their activities in the city.
For Egiari Zor, the 857 people killed were not the result of a terrorist organization that used coercion against the population to raise funds and carried out kidnappings and planned attacks on politicians, police and journalists, but rather an “armed struggle” against two repressive states. “Those of us who sign this manifesto are relatives of those who were killed or died as a result of the manifesto.” Not only the state’s strategy, but also those injured and tortured in the same situation. ” reads the founding manifesto.
“The repression of widespread society, labor and the popular sector within the framework of the conflicts of the past 50 years has caused an undeniable amount of suffering,” it said, adding the only sentence that could be interpreted as a reference to the victims of ETA: “We are aware that ETA has also affected many other people and want to do justice to the memory and dignity of all those mentioned below.” They were killed as a result of state repression and conflictinjured or tortured during the aforementioned period. Just as we understand the feelings of those who have lost family members as a result of armed struggle with the same sensitivity to their suffering, we ask that we respect our own feelings and the memories of those affected by state violence.
To find out about the activities we plan to carry out in Pamplona in 2026 with funding from the City Council, it is worth looking at the “What we do” section of our website. Beyond “dialogue and research activities” to “reveal hidden truths,” they “A new model of justice in which the ultimate goal is truth, not punishment.”clearly alluding to ETA’s prisoners. They added to their mandate “public denunciation of the impunity of perpetrators.”
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