Dignity and Justice denounces before the AN the organizers of the 'Christmas dinners' with photos of ETA prisoners

They consider that it can fit into the crimes of glorifying terrorism and humiliating the victims

MADRID, 29 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Asociación Dignidad y Justicia has filed a complaint with the National Court for glorifying terrorism and humiliating the victims against the organizers of the 'performance' that took place both in the town of Galdácano and in Bilbao and that simulated a Christmas dinner in full street with photos of ETA prisoners.

In a statement from this association, collected by Europa Press, it is indicated that this simulation "was in honor and praise of seven ETA prisoners who are currently serving sentences." And they point out in the brief presented that the honorees are the inmates Sebastián Jon Gurtubay, Beatriz Echevarria, Íñigo Zapirain, Asier Mardones, Liher Aretxabaleta, Harriet Iragui and Jon Igor Solana Matarranz.

In line, they recall that the last two are the perpetrators of the murder in 2000 of the former chief prosecutor of Andalusia Luis Portero, father of the president of Dignity and Justice, Daniel Portero.

In the complaint they explain that the event in Bilbao was held on December 24 and that it was publicized through the Twitter account Gora Alde Zaharra

Regarding the act of Galdácano, also held on December 24, they indicate that the staging was identical but alluding to different prisoners. That act, they say, was organized by the youth group Ernai, and images of Iosune Oña Ispizua, José Ignacio Cruchaga, Jon Bienzobas or Iker Lima Sagarpa, among others, were exhibited. "It is time to fill the empty tables. We want you at home," said a banner that presided over the theater.

In the complaint, the association indicates that "the public exhibition of photographs of ETA members, accompanied by a dramatization of a Christmas dinner, longing for the release of these ETA members, must be considered an act of humiliation and vexation towards the victims" . In line, remember that the Supreme Court ruling in 2011 considered the mere fact of displaying images of gang inmates a crime. Decision that, they say, was reiterated in numerous records of the National Court.

Dignity and Justice also notes that the staging does not ask for the approach of prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country and Navarra, and they attribute it in the statement to "the latest movements ordered by the Ministry of the Interior despite even contrary reports of prison treatment boards".

In the opinion of Dignidad y Justicia, these two 'performances' in which the release is requested "suppose a justification for the murders committed by these ETA members, since the conveners (...) understand that remaining in prison means applying a prison policy of exception". And he adds that the calls are carried out "with full knowledge of the impairment and suffering that they cause in the families of the victims."

The complaint requests the National Court that both the Civil Guard and the National Police and the Ertzaintza verify the facts collected, identify and take a statement from the organizers of the acts and those who have promoted them through social networks and certify the identity of the ETA members