The PP proposes a law to declare ETA crimes as crimes against humanity and prohibit tributes to murderers

Remember that the European Parliament approved a report demanding measures from Spain so that no attack goes unpunished

MADRID, 7 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP has proposed in Congress a law so that the murders carried out by the terrorist group ETA are recognized as crimes against humanity, which would prevent their prescription and would reinforce the demand for clarification, and to prohibit tributes to the perpetrators of those attacks.

The 'popular' recall that a year ago the European Parliament already asked Spain for this type of measure to prevent crimes from going unpunished. Specifically, the Petitions Committee approved on April 21, 2022 a report on the existence of 379 ETA murders still unresolved, which included fifteen recommendations to the Spanish authorities.

That report specifically called for adopting the necessary measures to clarify the ETA crimes still pending to be resolved, avoiding legal, social and moral impunity for terrorists, recognizing ETA murders as crimes against humanity, making prison benefits conditional on collaborate with the Justice, and prevent the acts of homage to the terrorists and the humiliation of the victims.

In its proposal for an Organic Law on Unsolved ETA Crimes and its victims, to which Europa Press has had access, the PP alleges that the correct understanding of the law requires knowing the European regulatory context, "which has evolved towards a more solid and coherent in order to reinforce the consideration that acts of terrorism constitute one of the most serious violations of the values ​​of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity". Also "of respect for Human Rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as an attack against the principles of democracy and the rule of law."

In other words, the PP proposal considers it "necessary" to undertake legislative action with regulatory changes to comply with these indications.

Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo indicate in the text that the report of the European Parliament Petitions Committee is based on an information visit carried out in Spain, from November 3 to 5, 2021, in relation to the almost four hundred ETA murders still without resolve, which constitute 44 percent of the total.

The PP also recalls that there is a direct precedent that it has taken into account for the development of the measures contemplated in the law: another report from the European Parliament, approved on November 19, 2020, on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in the years 2018 and 2019.

In it, he asks the Spanish authorities to take the necessary measures to prevent the victims of terrorism "from being humiliated by acts such as the tributes to ETA members that have taken place in recent years in Spain" and demands that "the relevant institutions", whether at the local, regional or state level, "provide the necessary safeguards to prevent subsequent victimization from occurring as a result of humiliation and attacks on the image of the victims by the social sectors related to the aggressor".