“For democratic dignity, those convicted of terrorist crimes should be deprived of the right to passive suffrage for life.” With these words the president of the Fundación de Víctimas, Tomás Caballero, has marked the tribute that, for thirteen years, every June 27 has been carried out in the Congress of Deputies in memory of the victims.
“Prevent those who tried to destroy the pillars of our coexistence by taking the lives of our parents, siblings, children or friends from becoming representatives of popular sovereignty,” appealed Caballero, who has emphasized the “paradox” of a system that prohibits a pedophile from working with minors but in which “those who murdered our deputies or councilors can aspire to sit in their seats.”
The petition made before the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet; the president of the Senate, Ander Gil; the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska; parliamentary spokesmen and members of the tables of both chambers, would imply, as Caballero has pointed out, “deepening the legislation” to prevent the repetition of cases such as the one that occurred before the elections of the past 28-M when the abertzale formation EH Bildu included in its electoral lists up to 44 convicted of terrorism, seven of them with blood crimes. The president of the Victims Foundation “implored” changes in the laws in order to prevent ETA assassins from becoming “representatives of popular sovereignty”, not even once their sentences have been completed.
Caballero also advocated for a rigorous application of the law and prison regulations and demanded that the investigation of the murders perpetrated by the gang and that are still unresolved be not given up, as well as that the regulations be tightened to prevent the celebration of tributes to the terrorists. In fact, he asked that the progression of prison degrees strictly conform to what is established in the legislation and that the subterfuge of invoking “a supposedly desirable or superior end” not be used to “justify the subordination of justice.”
These demands on the part of the victims are not new, for this reason the president of the Foundation regretted that the XIV legislature, now finished, has not served to address any of them. “I ask,” he said, with an eye toward the next mandate of the Chambers, “that the marker for the defense of the victims does not go back to zero.” “I implore you,” he added, “to return to see the victims and the terrorists in their true dimension, because those who curtailed even the right to life cannot claim any concession, express or tacit, as long as they continue to mutilate the right to life.” justice for the victims.
The act in the Congress of Deputies was attended by the Bildu deputy, Oskar Matute -in previous editions the spokesperson for the Abertzale group Mertxe Aizpurua attended-, the PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, also attended, who insisted on the need to always be present in these tributes. On behalf of the PP, the second vice president of Congress, Ana Pastor, and the secretary Carmen Navarro, as well as the senator and member of the Board of the Upper House, Rafael Hernando, attended. On the contrary, Vox decided not to be present because it considered, as its parliamentary spokesman Iván Espinosa de los Monteros explained, that his party “cannot attend an act of tribute to victims in which Bildu is present, who is nothing more than the arm ETA politician”.
Espinosa also accused the Government of Pedro Sánchez, in statements before journalists at the doors of the Chamber, of having “contributed to sullying the memory of the victims of terrorism by bringing ETA prisoners closer and whitewashing a party like Bildu”.
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