Otegi denounces that the Bateragune case is part of the 'lawfare' to "prevent ETA's violence from disappearing"

BILBAO, 18 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general coordinator of EH Bildu, Arnaldo Otegi, has denounced that the 'Bateragune case' is part of the "lawfare" against the Basque independence movement, and the State's attempt to prevent "ETA's armed violence from disappearing from the political equation of this country". In this sense, he has compared this strategy to the "dirty war" against the Catalan independentists.

Otegi, accompanied by others convicted in the Bateragune case, Miren Zabaleta, Arkaitz Rodriguez and Rafa Diez, has appeared at a press conference in San Sebastián after the Constitutional Court has protected them and has rejected the repetition of the trial to which they were subjected because It would violate the right to effective judicial protection, since the same person cannot be tried twice for the same facts. Another defendant, Sonia Jacinto, was unable to attend the hearing.

In his speech, the leader of EH Bildu has assured "with absolute crudeness" that the 'Bateragune case' - of reconstruction of the National Table of the outlawed Batasuna - was framed in the State's objective that "the armed violence of "ETA would not disappear from the political equation."

Furthermore, he stressed that it was one more action in the "persecution" of the Basque independence movement, which sought to "cause disorders within the Basque National Liberation Movement, and splits", with the aim of "neutralizing its political potential." "This was a case of lawfare with clear political objectives," he said.

However, he pointed out that it has been "a resounding failure" because "today the pro-independence left is the leading electoral political force in Euskal Herria."

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