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Observatory of the radicalization COVITE

Report of all acts of exaltation of the ETA’s terrorism registered from 2016 to 2018

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 1 The Collective of Victims of Terrorism (COVITE) has documented a total of 88 acts of extolling of ETA’s terrorism between 2016 and present time in its Observatory of Radicalization, a space on the Collective's website where all the acts related to the violent radicalization in the sphere of ETA`s terrorism are recorded. Of the total number of acts carried out until now, 40 of them took place in Guipúzcoa, 19 in Vizcaya, 18 in Navarra, 7 in Álava and 4 abroad. COVITE emphasizes that " is the only country in the European Union where it`s allowed to pay tribute in the streets to bloodthirsty terrorists proud of their past, with the risk it entails for the new generations".

Article 578 of the Spanish Penal Code defines the offense of glorifying terrorism as "the justification by any means of public expression or dissemination of the crimes included in articles 571 to 577 of this Code or of those who participated in its execution, or the carrying out acts that entail discredit, disregard or humiliation of the victims of terrorist crimes or their relatives”.

"To extol", according to judgment by the Spanish Supreme Court 656/2007 of July the 17th, means "placing the taxable person in a preferred position of virtue or merit, making it a reference and an example to imitate. The active subject, with his behavior, places the punishable actions and their authors as a model, granting them a value of assimilation to the legal order, despite contradicting it frontally”

The sentence lists the elements that constitute this crime: actions or words that praise qualities or merits; whether the object of the exaltation are conducts defined as crimes of terrorism or persons who have participated in the execution of such behavior; and the action is carried out in any medium of public expression or dissemination, such as a newspaper or a public event with attendance of a large audience.

Giving honors in a plenary hall of a City Hall to a terrorist proud of his crimes and only known for this activity, which is terrorist activity, are facts that have become part of our daily lives in the streets of the Basque Country and Navarre. They have normalized events such as receiving cheers, flares and dances dedicated to a terrorist like José Miguel , who accumulated prison sentences of thirty-two years for the kidnapping of Ortega Lara, fourteen for the kidnapping of businessman Julio Iglesias Zamora and one hundred and seventy eight years for the murder of three Spanish Civil Guards. Or those public places such as high schools and primary schools are used to pay tribute to ETA members.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 2 Data of the registered acts from 2016 to 2018

Place Number of acts Guipúzcoa 57 Vizcaya 22 Navarra 23 Álava 9 Abroad 4

Type of acts Number of acts Prisoner welcome 56 “Struggle” sessions 13 Popular festivals 13 Other tributes 33

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 3 Acts of exaltation of terrorism in 2018

Year 2018 Number of acts January 4 February 8 March 24 April May June July August September October November December Total 36

Type of acts Number of acts Prisoner welcome 9 Struggle Sessions Popular festivals 3 Other Tributes 24 Total 36

Place Number of acts Guipúzcoa 20 Vizcaya 7 Navarra 7 Álava 2 Foreign Total 36

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 4 25.03.2018. Etxarri-Aranatz (Navarra). Three monoliths that honor three members of ETA. Type of act: Other tributes

In the town of Etxarri-Aranatz, three monoliths that honor theree members of ETA are erected. They honor Josu Zabala, Basajaun; Pello Mariñelarena; y Juan Ignatar, Axio.

The reason for raising these monoliths is the 21st anniversary of the death of ETA member Josu Zabala, on March 25. Zabala was a presumed member of the Nafarroa command, partially disarticulated by the in 1994. The ETA was found in the town of Deba (Guipúzcoa) with a shot in the chest and a pistol next to his body. The police investigation determined that the terrorist committed suicide.

Zabala was missing since the dismantling of the Nafarroa command. In that police operation seven members of the group were arrested, and on Zabala weighed an order of search and capture.

Pello Mariñelarena died on May 15, 1993 in the prison of La Santé and Juan Ignatar, Axio, died in October 1979.

On the banner behind the monoliths, it reads "the fallen tree will sprout again".

23.03.2018. Vitoria (Álava). Igor Uriarte. Type of act: prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receive Igor Uriarte in Vitoria, considered by the Spanish justice as one of the leaders of Ekin, an apparatus in charge of enforcing the ETA guidelines on the “izquierda ”.

They received him making a corridor between ikurriñas and flares.

Uriarte was arrested in 2011 in Bayonne and served a sentence in the French prison from 2013 until Friday, March 23, 2018.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 5 20.03.2018. Arrasate (Guipúzcoa). Josu Arkauz. Type of act: Other tributes

The ETA terrorist Josu Arkauz, known as “Josu de Mondragón”, was given a penitentiary permission on March 19 to go to Arrasate to see his father before he died. He is currently in the prison of Murcia serving sentence.

When he arrived in Arrasate on March 20 in the morning, dozens of people received him shouting “aupa Josu!”, as well as demanding freedom for all the ETA prisoners.

The terrorist was sentenced on November 14, 2001 to 18 years in prison for sending a bomb charge in April 1989 to the then Minister of Justice, Enrique Múgica, which was deactivated by the Security Forces.

Likewise, on April 30, 2002, he was convicted as the author of the shipment, in April of 1989, of a letter-bomb to a national policeman from (Guipúzcoa) which, by mistake, picked up a neighbor, whom the explosion of the device mutilated and left incapacitated.

The last sentence that was imposed on him by the National Court on December 18, 2003, was 45 years in prison for the commission of three crimes of terrorist injuries related to the shipment, in April 1989, of three bomb packages. that they could be deactivated and had been destined to the ex- delegate of the Government in the Basque Country and ex- civil governor of Guipúzcoa Julen Elgorriaga; former Minister of the Interior and Transport and Communications José Barrionuevo, and prison official Antonio Sánchez Sobrino.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 6 19.03.2018 – 22.03.2018. Public University of Navarra (Navarra). Exhibition in the Public University of Navarra about the “Alsasua case”. Type of act: Other tributes

From 19 to 22 March there was an exhibition in the main classrooms of the Public University of Navarra (), on the case of Alsasua. The exhibition consisted of panels with photographs of the aggressors and some texts on why this case should not be considered a terrorist crime. There was no mention of the civil guards victims of the aggression in the exhibition about the case.

Also, there were some sheets to sign and publicly support the cause. Also T-shirts and sweatshirts to buy in which you can read "Utzi Altsasu Bakean" (Leave Alsasua alone). A talk about this initiative was also held in a classroom at the university. All this with the knowledge and authorization of the Rector of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA).

19.03.2018. Durango and Ondarroa (Vizcaya). Zunbeltz Larrea. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people welcome the ETA terrorist Zunbeltz Larrea in Durango and Ondarroa, villages of Vizcaya, after having spent 15 years in prison.

His first welcome was when he got out of the Castellón de la Plana prison, in the parking lot, where he was tributed by four “dantzaris” that danced an “aurresku” for him.

When he arrived in Durango, he was honored with applauses, “ikurriñas” and another “aurresku”. In Durango, ETA killed the following people: Jesús María Pedrosa, Pedro Ruiz, Epifanio Vidal,

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 7 Jesús Hernando, José Antonio Merenciano, Sergio Canal, José María Urquizu, Dámaso Sánchez y Pedro Ballesteros.

In Ondarroa he was received by dozens of people and honored with another “aurresku” and with presents. The people who assisted the welcoming act took adventage of the occasion to demand amnesty for all the ETA prisoners and to honor the ETA member Xabier Rey, who had killed himself on March 6, in the Puerto III of Cádiz prison. The welcoming act was announced by the Town Hall itself in its twitter account.

Zunbeltz Larrea was impresoned in 2004 when he was arrested by the French police in the French location of Montauban. His criminal record in ETA started with acts of street violence and was followed by his actions of passing through information to the murderers about their victims so they could carry out the assassinations.

10.03.2018. Pamplona. Xabier Rey. Type of act: Other tributes

Thousands of people march down the streets of Pamplona to protest for the death of the ETA prisoner Xavier Rey in the Puerto III prison of Cádiz on March 6.

The protest was lead by a photo of Xabier Rey, carried by the ETA member Kubati, after which a great ikurriña was displayed, followed by a zanpantzar. The rest of the protesters followed them carrying a great banner that said “Espetxe Politika Hiltzailea” (Killer Penitentiary Politics). The march started at 5 p.m. from the Golem cinemas of Pamplona and carried on through the Sancho el Fuerte and Pio XII avenues, the Vuelta del Castillo street and the Bayona avenue, and finalized at the Asunción square. After an “aurresku”, the act ended with the intervention of the general secretary of Sortu, Arkaitz Rodríguez, who requested the “end of the current penitentiary politics”. At the march, people yelled “Herriak ez du barkatuko” (“The people will not forgive”).

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 8 07.03.2018. Lejona (Vizcaya). The Public University Campus of the Vasque Country turns into an exaltation act for the ETA member Xabier Rey. Type of act: Other tributes

The campus of the Public University of the Vasque Country showed various posters that supported the ETA member Xavier Rey, who committed suicide in the Puerto III prison of Cádiz on March 6.

07.03.2018. Vitoria (Álava). Concentration in favor of Xabier Rey. Type of act: Other tributes

Concentration in Vitoria in favor of the ETA member Xavier Rey, who committed suicide in the Puerto III prison of Cádiz on March 6.

07.03.2018. San Sebastian. . . . Tolosa. . . Villabona. Hernani. . Orereta. . Exaltation acts in different locations of Guipúzcoa in favor of Xabier Rey after his death. Type of act: Other tributes

Concentrations in various locations of Guipúzcoa in favor of the ETA member Xavier Rey, who committed suicide in the Puerto III prison of Cádiz on March 6.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 9 01.03.2018. “Solidarity Day” 2018 in Rochapea, neighborhood of Pamplona (Navarra). Type of act: Other tributes

A poster announces and advertises for March 10 a tribute in the neighborhood of Rochapea in Pamplona to four ETA terrorists.

Jesús María Gómez Ezquerro was sentenced in 1999 to five years in prison for collaboration with an armed gang, while Juan María Echavarri Garro and José Ignacio Armendariz Izaguirre were sentenced in the same sentence to six years in prison for belonging to an armed gang. In 2000, the three were sentenced to sixteen years in prison for the crime of terrorism when they placed a bomb in a Mapfre office in Villava (Pamplona). Juan Luis Rubenach Roiz was part of the Donosti, Nafarroa and Commando. According to police sources, at the time of his arrest in 2003 he was responsible for the training of the new members of ETA. In 2009 he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

The poster announced that during the day of “solidarity” an act would be held asking for the release of the ETA prisoners, a meal and musical performances. However, given that a march in favor of the Xabier Rey ETA was held on March 10 in Pamplona, the two tributes merged.

27.02.2018. (Vizcaya). Association for the memory of the ETA member Txabi Etxebarrieta. Type of act: Other

On February 27, 2018, an association called "Alde Zaharreko Etxebarrieta Memoria Elkartea" (Association of the Old Part for the Memory of Etxebarrieta) dedicated to the ETA

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 10 member Txabi Etxebarrieta, responsible for the murder of the guard José Antonio Pardines, is registered in the register of associations of the Basque Government. Jose Antonio Pardines is the first mortal victim of ETA, and whose murder was fifty years ago in June this year.

The entity has as treasurer, Imanol González Pardo, who was condemned by the National Court in 2014 for placing a bomb on the rear wheel of a bus during the 2012 general strike, facts that the court considered a crime of attempted havoc. In the sentence it was accredited that González Pardo was "close, at least, to the ideology of Segi", the youth branch of ETA, since in the registry of his home T-shirts, banners and other objects with the anagram of this group were found .

23.02.2018. Santurce (Vizcaya). Lander Maruri. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receiving in Santurce (Vizcaya) ETA`s terrorist Lander Maruri. The honoree crossed a hall formed by the assistants to the event applauding and cheering him holding torches, ikurriñas ( Basque Country flag) and flags of support to the ETA`s prisoners. Lander Maruri was sentenced by the Spanish National Court in 2001 to sixteen years in prison for being a criminally responsible accomplice for the murder of José Manuel García Fernández.

18.02.2018. (Guipúzcoa). Iñaki Igerategi e Ignacio Otaño. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

More than two hundred people, children included, go to the Village of Andoain in Guipúzcoa to welcome the ETA prisoners ñaki Igerategi and Ignacio Otaño. The members of ETA walked down a corridor formed by the assistants who applauded them while they sang songs in favor of the freedom of ETA prisoners. They were danced an aurresku of honor and they were given two bouquets of flowers. Iñaki Igerategi and Ignacio Otaño, arrested in 2012, were sentenced to six years in prison for having provided information on ETA's objectives -Joxeba Pagazaurtundua among them- and for sending letters of extortion on behalf of the terrorist organization.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 11 11.02.2018. (Guipúzcoa). "Elegant Eguna" ("Elegant Day"). Type of act: Popular festivals

During the celebration of the "Elegant Eguna" of the carnival of Azpeitia, a hundred people, including children, have gathered to ask for the freedom of ETA`s terrorists. They also appear painted in this town in favor of the collective of ETA´s prisoners 'EPPK'.

14.02.2018. Pamplona (Navarra). The car of a UPN politic is attacked. Type of act: Other

The car of a politic of the UPN party is attacked and painted with intimidating messages. The paintings left by the radicals say: “UPN. Fatxa. Fascist. Kanpora”. The politic that owns the car had already been threatened by phone.

10.02.2018. Bilbao (Vizcaya). Carnivals of Bilbao. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the celebration of the carnival in Bilbao, a large banner in favor of the freedom of the prisoners of ETA presides over one of the streets of the down town.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 12 08.02.2018. Tolosa (Guipúzcoa). Act of request of amnesty for prisoners of ETA in the Carnival of Tolosa. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the Maundy Thursday celebration of the Carnival of Tolosa, the bullring of the town becomes the scene of an act focused on the request of amnesty for the terrorists of ETA. With hundreds of people in the stands cheering to the sound of festive music, choreography is developed in the bullring in which a giant flag is displayed in favor of the ETA prisoners. In the bullring you can see more flags, as well as some banners with images of the faces of the terrorists.

These demands are not exclusively limited to the acts carried out in the bullring, but also in the streets of Tolosa we could find placards of the collective of ETA´s prisoners 'EPPK' asking for amnesty for terrorists.

28.01.2018. Gaztelu (Guipúzcoa). Children in the “day of solidarity with the prisoners of ETA”. Type of act: Other tribute

At least twenty children participated in the celebration of the so-called Day of solidarity with the prisoners of ETA in Gaztelu (Guipúzcoa). Several children interpreted an aurresku or dance of honor, which was dedicated to the ETA´s member Andoni Goikoetxea, expert in explosives and resident in the town since his release from prison last November.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 13 27.01.2018. Oiartzun (Guipúzcoa). Joxean Etxeberria. Type of act: Prisioner welcome

Dozens of people received in the jai-alai of Madalensoro (Oiartzun, Guipúzcoa) the ETA´s terrorist Joxean Etxeberria. The event had stage, sound equipment and projector. The ETA member was accompanied in a festive way by the Joaldunak (a traditional character of the culture of Basque Country and Navarre. His function is to shake some cowbells to warn people about the arrival of the carnivals) to the enclosure to later be honored with an aurresku of honor. Joxean Etxeberria was sentenced in 2007 to ten years of prison for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization when he was considered the chief economic officer of the Kodainadora Abertzale Sozialista (KAS) integrated in ETA.

04.01.2018. Munguía (Vizcaya). Aletxu Zobaran. Type of act: prisoner welcome

The ETA terrorist Aletxu Zobaran is welcome in the location of Munguía, in Vizcaya, after having been granted conditional freedom from the Madrid prison of Soto del Real on January 4.

Zobaran was arrested on March 2011 in Willencourt, in the north of France, and since then he has been in various prisons.

According to an information published by La Razón, since 2007 he was a part of the ETA group “Urederra” and had orders of his boss, the ETA terrorist Garikoitz Azpiazu, “Txeroki”, to murder Maite Pagazartundúa, the sister of Joseba, who ETA had murdered four years before, but he failed to do so because she had a lot of security. He also had orders of killing the philosopher Fernando Savater, but he did not track him down.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 14 04.01.2018. Oiartzun (Guipúzcoa). Joxean Etxeberria. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people, including children, receive in Oiartzun the terrorist of ETA Joxean Etxeberria. The act of welcoming the ETA´s member began with an entourage playing instruments and carrying flags while the audience applauded and cheered the arrival of Etxeberria. The act continued with the participation of a dantzari (dancer of a Basque traditional dance) who performed a dance and handed him a bouquet of flowers, concluding with the dedication of some bertsos (sung verses). Joxean Etxeberria was sentenced in 2007 to ten years in prison for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization when he was considered the chief economic officer of the Kodainadora Abertzale Sozialista (KAS) integrated in ETA.

Acts of exaltation of terrorism in 2017

Year 2017 Number of acts January 1 February 2 March 2 April 2 May 1 June 6 July 4 August 14 September 15 October 16 November 6 December 7 Total 76

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 15 Type of act Number of acts Prisoner welcome 45 Struggle sessions 12 Popular parties 10 Other tributes 9 Total 76

Place Number of acts Guipúzcoa 35 Vizcaya 14 Navarra 16 Álava 7 Foreign 4 Total 76 31.12.2017. Santurce (Vizcaya). Txema Matanzas. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

More than a hundred people received the ETA´s terrorist Txema Matanzas in the Biscayan town of Santurtzi. The multitudinous act of welcome had two event tents mounted in the street in front of which an aurresku of honor dedicated to this ETA´s member was danced among the applause of the assistants. Txema Matanzas was sentenced to fourteen years in prison on December 19, 2007 by the Spanish National High Court as the leader of Kas-Ekin-Saki, the strategic-political framework of ETA, although the Spanish Supreme Court later decided to lower the sentence to ten years and nine months of prison.

28.12.2017. Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava). Txema Matanzas. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 16 cowbells of the Joaldunak that accompanied him to the entrance of the enclosure where the event took place. During the act an aurresku of honor was also danced. Txema Matanzas was sentenced to fourteen years in prison on December 19, 2007 by the Spanish National High Court as the leader of Kas-Ekin-Saki, the strategic-political framework of ETA, although the Spanish Supreme Court decided later to lower the sentence to ten years and nine months of prison.

24.12.2017. Galdácano (Vizcaya). Tribute to ETA members on Christmas Eve. Type of act: Other tribute

Throughout December 24th, in the heart of the Biscayan town of Galdácano, a 'dinner' is celebrated in honor of eleven ETA´s members from this town who are in prison. The 'dinner' consisted in placing on the main street of the town a table with eleven chairs and, in each of them, an image of the terrorists honored. Among them, Jon Bienzobas Arretxe and Javier García Gaztelu, murderers of Francisco Tomás y Valiente, Rafael San Sebastián, Alfonso Morcillo, Gregorio Ordóñez, Fernando Múgica, Miguel Ángel Blanco, Manuel Zamarreño, Enrique Nieto, José Javier Múgica, Fernando Buesa , José Ignacio Iruretagoyena or José Luis López de Lacalle. The assembly remained in the main street of Galdácano for more than ten hours without being withdrawn by any agent of the municipal authority.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 17 20.12.2017. Mondragón (Guipúzcoa). Fermín Sampedro and Jesús Goikoetxea. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

About a hundred people receive in the Guipuzcoan town of Mondragón terrorists of ETA Fermín Sampedro and Jesús Goikoetxea. The ETA members were received by a corridor of people who carried flags in favor of ETA´s prisoners and chanted and applauded the two protagonists of the ongi etorri. In addition to having sound equipment, flares were also used in the event. The Spanish National Court sentenced Jesus Goikoetxea and Fermín Sampedro to nineteen years in prison for belonging to an armed group, possession of explosives and falsification of registration plates. Both were members of the Xoxua Command.

02.12.2017. Zarautz (Guipúzcoa). Ekhine Eizagirre Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receives the ETA´s terrorist Ekhine Eizagirre in the town of Zarautz in Guipuzcoa. After the ongi etorri of November 14, this new act of reception had all kinds of actions to receive the ETA´s member with all possible honors. According to a bill of indictment of the judge Ismael Moreno of the Spanish National Court, Ekhine Eizaguirre Zubiaurre at the time of her arrest, she was in front of talde ( action group) ‘Ezpala (splinter)’, which would have 40 kilos of explosives, detonators, cord, PETN and a gun. It was condemned by the French justice to six years of jail.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 18 02.12.2017. Lasarte-Oria (Guipúzcoa). Pello Eskisabel. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receive ETA´s terrorist Pello Eskisabel in the Guipuzcoa town of Lasarte-Oria. The ETA´s member was arrested in France in 2005 and sentenced by the French justice System in 2011 to seventeen years in prison for leading the military apparatus of ETA and leading the accounting administration of the armed group, fulfilling twelve years of the total sentence of seventeen years that was imposed on him.

30.11.2017. Gaztelu (Guipúzcoa). Andoni Goikoetxea. Type of act: Prisoner welcome Dozens of residents of Gaztelu received Andoni Goikoetxea when leaving the Fleury prison in Paris. Between cheers and hugs they gave him a bouquet of flowers. In addition, a dantzari danced an aurresku in his honor to the rhythm of the txistu (a kind of fipple flute that became a symbol for the Basque folk revival) and the tamboril (percussion instrument ). After that aurresku, the ETA´s member,released from prison in France, said a few words to the assembled, among whom there were several children. Goikoetxea scaped from Gaztelu to France and went underground in 2011, when the Civil Guard dismantled an ETA´s command that stored 1.600 kilos of explosives to distribute to other terrorist cells. Before it were discovered that he was an ETA´s member, Andoni Goikoetxea had been condemned at least twice for attempted assaults against members of the PNV (Basque Nationalist). One of those sentences was imposed on him for trying to attack his own mother, who was a councillor of a platform of the .

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 19 26.11.2017. Lazkao (Guipúzcoa). Belén González Peñalva. Type of act: Other tribute

Hundreds of people paid homage at a ceremony organized in the Guipuzcoan town of Lazkao to the deceased ETA´s terrorist, Belén González Peñalva. The event in which an aurresku of honor to the ETA´s member was danced, also it had the presence of one of the most bloodthirsty ETA´s member, Antton López Ruiz, alias Kubati, sentenced to more than one thousand two hundred years in prison for his crimes. For her part, González Peñalva is attributed a kidnapping and five murders, crimes for which she was sentenced to seven hundred and twenty-seven years in prison, behind bars for only four years. The honoree entered ETA in the seventies and in 1983 she joined the Madrid command, responsible of dozens of crimes and deadly attacks.

17.11.2017 San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Belén González Peñalva. Type of act: Other tribute

Dozens of people gathered in San Sebastián to pay homage to the deceased ETA´s terrorist, Belén González Peñalva. The ETA´s member had a broad terrorist record, since she joined ETA in the seventies and in 1983 she joined the Madrid command, responsible of dozens of crimes and deadly attacks. González Peñalva is attributed a kidnapping and five murders, crimes for which she was sentenced to seven hundred and twenty-seven years in prison, only behind bars for four years.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 20 14.11.2017. Zarautz (Guipúzcoa). Ekhine Eizagirre Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received the ETA´s terrorist Ekhine Eizagirre in the town of Zarautz in Guipuzcoa. The event included sound equipment, delivery of flowers and an aurresku to receive ETA´s member with all possible honors. According to an order of the judge of the Spanish National Court, Ismael Moreno, Ekhine Eizaguirre Zubiaurre at the time of arrest she was at the head of the talde 'Ezpala (splinter)', which would have which would have 40 kilos of explosives, detonators, cord, PETN and a gun. She was sentenced by the French justice to six years in prison.

14.11.2017. Barañáin (Navarra). State School Alaitz Tribute. Type of act: Other tribute

In the playground of the Alaitz State School located in Barañáin in Pamplona, students paid homage to the aggressors of two civil guards and their partners. Nine students from the public school performed a dance in honor of the aggressors, while two others hold a banner asking for freedom for the defendants who remain in jail.

04.11.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya). Sebastián Prieto Jurado. Type of act: prisoner welcome

More than a thousand people receive the ETA terrorist Sebastián Prieto Jurado in the Bilbao neighborhood of Ocharcoaga. He was honored with music and a scenario in which he was given a bouquet of flowers. Sebastián Prieto Jurado was arrested when he was an active member of the

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 21 “comando Nafarroa” and he had previously been a part of the “comando Vizcaya”. In 1991 a search and capture order was emitted against him by the Central Court number 5 of the National Audience, accused of murder, belonging to a band arm and terrorist collaboration. For his criminal record in the “comando Nafarroa” he was condemned in 1997 to thirty two years of prison for belonging to a band arm and tenure of arms and explosives.

29.10.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Ibón Iparragirre. Type of act: Other tribute

The streets of the down town of San Sebastian appeared papered with posters with the face of ETA’s terrorist Ibón Iparragirre and a text in which he is called "political prisoner" and it is asked to leave prison. Ibón Iparragirre is serving the sentence after the Spanish Supreme Court in 2014 confirmed the sentence of two hundred and ninety-nine years in prison imposed on him by the placement of a car bomb next to the police station of the Ertzaintza in Ondarroa on September 21st of 2008.

28.10.2017. Arechavaleta (Guipúzcoa). Zuhaitz Errasti Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received in Arechavaleta the ETA´s terrorist Zuhaitz Errasti, who crossed a corridor formed by the assistants while they applauded and cheered him while festive music was being played and flares were lit. The ETA´s member was sentenced to eight years in prison by the French justice for his participation in the logistical structure of the military apparatus of the terrorist group ETA. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying twenty-six kilos of aluminum powder and a loaded gun with munition, therefore, he was considered guilty of possession and transportation of weapons and explosives.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 22 28.10.2017. Ascain (France). Aratz Gómez and Arkaitz Sáez. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Around a hundred people, including children, received in Ascain (France) ETA´s terrorists Aratz Gómez and Arkaitz Sáez in an event that featured a central stage, sound equipment, aurresku of homage for terrorists and musical performances. The terrorist José Miguel Gaztelu also wanted to contribute with his presence to the reception of his companions. His terrorist record is accumulated prison sentences of thirty-two years for the kidnapping of Ortega Lara, fourteen years for the kidnapping of businessman Julio Iglesias Zamora and one hundred and seventy-eight years of jail for the murder of three Spanish Civil Guards. The two ETA´s members welcomed served eighteen years in prison for belonging to an armed gang, illegal possession of firearms, possession of prohibited weapons, attempted robbery with violence, attempted illegal detention and official document forgery.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 23 27.10.2017. Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas (Guipúzcoa). Eloy Uriarte Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of neighbors received ETA´s terrorist Eloy Uriarte alias "Señor Robles" in the Soraluze- Placencia de las Armas. The reception given to this ETA´S member in his native municipality had an 'aurresku' of honor, a bouquet of flowers handed and some verses were sung to him with the musical background of Benito Lertxundi with applause from the audience. Uriarte fled to France in 1974 when the command of ETA 'Urko' was dismantled. Since then, he was directly linked to the extortion apparatus of the terrorist group. He was arrested for his terrorist activities in 1976, 1989 (considering him the number three of ETA and responsible for the finance and logistics apparatus of the organization by the authorities at the time) and 2006.

15.10.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). "Alde hemendik". Type of act: Others

In the Pamplona neighborhood of Iturrama appeared slogans in favor of ETA and the campaign promoted by the terrorist organization against the Spanish Security Forces known as "Alde hemendik" ("Get out from here").

14.10.2017. Getxo (Vizcaya). "Zirikatzeko eguna" ("Annoying day"). Type of act: “Struggle” sessions

Fifty people gathered in the neighborhood of Algorta to celebrate the "Zirikatzeko eguna" ("Annoying Day") under the slogan "Alde hemendik" ("Out of here"), main slogan of a campaign promoted by the terrorist organization ETA against the Spanish Security Forces.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 24 12.10.2017. Basauri (Vizcaya). Popular festivals of Basauri. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the village festivals of Basauri, dozens of people gathered to demand the release of ETA´s terrorists from prison. In the banner that was leading the concentration, seven images of members of the terrorist band were exhibited.

12.10.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya) (2), San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa) (3) and Leiza (Guipúzcoa) (4). "Alde hemendik". Type of act: “Struggle” sessions

Groups in favor of the release of ETA´s terrorists from prison called a walk in Bilbao under the slogan "Alde hemendik" ("Out of here"), the main slogan of a campaign promoted by the terrorist organization against the Spanish Security Forces. In San Sebastián and Leiza grafittis appeared with the same slogan and with the arrow, a representative symbol of the campaign.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 25 07.10.2017. Villava (Navarra). Popular festivals of Villava. Type of act: Popular festivals

During village festivals of Villava, dozens of people roamed the streets of this town in a walk in which the release of ETA´s terrorists is requested.

07.10.2017. Salvatierra (Álava). Popular festivals of Salvatierra. Type of act: Popular festivals

Dozens of people gathered during the village festivals of Salvatierra to demand the release of ETA ´s terrorists. During the concentration, images of prisoners of ETA were exhibited, being the image of the terrorist Kepa del Hoyo which was leading a main position on the stage as a tribute. The dates also overlapped with the anniversary of the murder of the Spanish Civil Guards Avelino Palma Brioa, Angel Prado Mella and José Luis Vázquez Platas in Salvatierra on October 4th, 1980. These Civil Guards were regulating traffic in this town prior to a festive bicycle race when, among people, members of ETA run out gripping their pistols and ridlling the Civil Guards, tacking them aback and killing two immediately. The third Civil Guard, José Luis Vázquez Platas, had only been shot in the arm so he could hide under a car, however, as his widow told him during the trial celebrated in October 2003, the local people began to shout: "He is still alive, he is still alive!". The terrorists came back and shot him with twenty-four shootings. The attack count with the support of the Salvatierra´s priest at that time, Ismael Arrieta Pérez de Mendiola, who provided the terrorists with accurate information about the situation of the Civil Guards and the timetables and route of the cycling race.

04.10.2017. (Guipúzcoa). José Miguel Gaztelu. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

A crowd received cheering, having fired flares and dancing tribute dances to ETA´s terrorist José Miguel Gaztelu in Bergara. In his terrorist record, he had accumulated thirty-two years of prison sentences for the kidnapping of Ortega Lara, fourteen for the kidnapping of businessman Julio

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 26 Iglesias Zamora and one hundred and seventy-eight years in prison for the murder of three Civil Guards. In the morning when he left the prison of Algeciras he was received by Jesús María Zabarte, better known as the “Carnicero de Mondragón” ( butcher of Mondragón) , whose judgments amounted six hundred and fifteen years in prison for his involvement in twenty attacks and seventeen murders.

01.10.2017. Salvatierra (Álava). Popular festivals of Salvatierra. Type of act: Popular festivals

During patronal feasts of Salvatierra, banners, graffiti and propaganda on behalf of ETA´s terrorists appeared on the streets. Among them, Unai López de Ocáriz (photo 2), sentenced by the Spanish National Court to twenty-eight years in prison for an attack against Caja Vital (financial institution), and Alicia Sáez de la Cuesta (photo 2), sentenced to twenty-nine years for her participation in the murder of the retired second lieutenant of the Civil Guard Alfonso Parada Ulloa and for the attempted murder of the President of Xunta de Galicia, Manuel Fraga. One of the graffiti pro-prisoners was made at the door of the old Civil Guard barracks (photo 3), the terrorist target of an attack in 1979.

01.10.2017. Zurich (Switzerland). Nekane Txapartegi. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people, including children, received the ETA´s terrorist Nekane Txapartegi in the Zurich. She fled to Switzerland in 2009, and lived under a false identity in order to avoid serving sentence of three and a half years imposed on her by collaboration with ETA.

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30.09.2017. Rentería (Guipúzcoa). Function in favor of prisoners of ETA in a state school. Type of act: Other tribute

Dozens of people attended a function in favour of ETA´s organization 'Sare' in a state school in Renteria. During the ceremony, the release of two ETA´s terrorists was requested: Aitzol Gogorza, sentenced in 2006 to more than 20 years in prison for the attempted murder in 1997 of prison official Juan José Baeza, (who was shot in the neck) and for the possession of weapons and Mikel Arrieta, sentenced to 35 years for the murder of Baracaldo Local Police Chief José Aibar Yáñez on June 30th, 1982.

29.09.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Nahikari Otaegi. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

More than a hundred people receive ETA terrorist Nahikari Otaegi in the streets of San Sebastian. Otaegi was a member of Segi (youth organization belonging to the so-called abertzale left or

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 28 Basque radical nationalist left) and was sentenced by the Spanish National Court to six years in prison for belonging to ETA.

28.09.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Imanol Vicente. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received in the neighborhood of Amara Nuevo, Donostia-San Sebastián, ETA´s terrorist Imanol Vicente, Segi member, sentenced by the Spanish National High Court to six years in prison for belonging to ETA.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 29 28.09.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya). Andoni Ugalde. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people received the ETA´s terrorist Andoni Ugalde in the down town of Bilbao. As member of the Vizcaya commando of ETA, Ugalde was condemned for his role as a necessary collaborator in the bomb attack of April 1994 that killed the Spanish Civil Guard Fernando Jimenez Pascual. He was also sentenced by the Spanish National Court to thirty years in prison for his participationin routines of monitoring and surveillance of the murder of the sergeant of the Ertzaintza (Basque police) Joseba Goikoetxea, perpetrated in the presence of his son.

27.09.2017. Lekeitio (Guipúzcoa) (1), San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa) (2 and 3), Andoain (Guipúzcoa) (4 and 5), Górliz (Vizcaya) (6), Etxarri-Aranatz (Navarra) (7), Galdácano (Vizcaya) (8), Villabona (Guipúzcoa) (9). Type of act: “Struggle” sessions

On the occasion of the Gudari Eguna (day of the Basque soldier), several villages in the Basque Country and Navarre dedicate altars and banners to honor ETA´s terrorists. Some of the aforementioned altars are presided over by ETA anagrams and are placed in public spaces, as in the case of the City Council of Górliz (Vizcaya).

22.09.2017. Mondragón (Guipúzcoa). Kepa Arkauz Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people, including children, received in Mondragón ETA´s terrorist Kepa Arkauz, arrested in 2013 in France. The ETA member had in its possession material to falsify documents, as well as numerous identity documents and 7050 Euros in cash. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for being part of the logistical apparatus of the terrorist group.

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22.09.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Saint Festivities of San Fermín de Aldapa. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the saint festivities of San Fermín de Aldapa, the streets of Pamplona are filled with many propaganda in favor of ETA´s terrorists, as well as the campaign "Alde hemendik" ("Get out from here") promoted by the terrorist organization against the Spanish Forces of Security and other radical slogans.

18.09.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Mikel Castillo. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Tribute to ETA member Mikel Castillo, who died in a police chase after being caught by the police, along with other members of the commando, when he tried to perpetrate a murder in the down town of Pamplona. Members of the commando were later convicted for the murder of newspaper deliveries María Cruz Yoldi, who died as a result of a bomb explosion.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 31 13.09.2017. Alsasua (Navarra). Festivities of Alsasua. Type of act: Popular festivals

In the popular festivities of the town, organizations of the setting of the left nationalist celebrated a toast in favor of the prisoners of ETA and a demonstration against the Spanish Civil Guard. In the streets there were banners against the Spanish Security Forces and graffitis with an arrow, symbol of the ETA´s campaign "Alde hemendik" ("Out of here").

24.08.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Egoi Alberdi. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received in the neighborhood of Amara in San Sebastián, the ETA´s terrorist Egoi Alberdi, a member of Segi, sentenced by the Spanish National Court to six years in prison for the crime of belonging to ETA. The sentence considered proven his "direct, material and voluntary participation" in the illegalized youth organization.

23.08.2017. Hernani (Guipúzcoa). Itxaso Zaldúa. Type of act: prisoner welcome

Dozens of people welcome the ETA terrorist Itxaso Zaldúa in Guipuzcoa’s Hernani village. Zaldúa was condemned by the Criminal Court of Paris to ten years of prison for leading the logistics of ETA. The terrorist had been captured in 2005 in the location of Lannemezan, at the south of France, with Joseba Segurola, her lieutenant.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 32 22.08.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya). “Semana Grande” of Bilbao. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the “Semana Grande” of Bilbao (main celebrations), streets and txosnas (tavern that is assembled in the regional celebrations in the Basque Country and Navarre) displayed images of ETA´s prisoners, graffiti in favor of the terrorist organization and slogans with references to the terrorist Kepa del Hoyo ('Agur ohore, Kepa!' (Honor, Kepa! On the facade of a municipal library also appeared a flag in favor of the prisoners of ETA.

17.08.2017. Muskiz and Lasarte (Guipúzcoa). Rafael Díez Usabiaga. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Rafael Díez Usabiaga, a historic member of the abertzale left and sentenced to six and a half years in prison for attempting to rebuild the outlawed ,was doubly received in towns of Muskiz and Lasarte by a crowd of people. When he left the Prision of El Dueso (Cantabria), leaders of the abertzale left like and members of ETA like Josu Zabarte, the Butcher of Mondragón, were waiting for him.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 33 14.08.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Mikel Arretxe. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received ETA´s terrorist Mikel Arretxe in San Sebastian. Arretxe was sentenced by the Spanish National Court in 2011 to six years in prison for the crime of integration into a terrorist group.

11.08.2017. Hernani (Guipúzcoa). José Agustín Camacho and Miren Josune Balda. Type of act: Prisoners welcome

Dozens of people gathered in Hernani to hold a double reception to the terrorists of ETA José Agustín Camacho and Miren Josune Balda. Both condemned by the Spanish National Court to seven years in prison for collaboration with the terrorist organization to harbor the terrorist of the 'Comando Imanol' Ibai Beobide.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 34 08.08.2017. Bayonne (France). Mikel Irastorza Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Several dozen people received and pay tribute to ETA´s terrorist Mikel Irastorza in Bayonne. Irastorza was arrested in France in November 2016. He is accused of being part of an association of criminals for terrorist purposes. Irastorza at the time of the arrest was considered the ETA leader.

06.08.2017. Ondárroa (Vizcaya). Kemen Uranga. Type of act: prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people receive the ETA terrorist Kemen Uranga in the Vizcaya location of Ondárroa. Uranga was condemned by the Spanish Criminal Court to five years of prison for collaborating with the terrorist band ETA.

05.08.2017. Etxarri-Aranatz (Navarra). "Inutiyan egune" Type of act: “Struggle” sessions

Radical organizations celebrated in Etxarri-Aranatz the "Inutiyan egune" or "Day of the dead loss ", in allusion to the Spanish Civil Guard. Among the planned activities is the "Throw to fatxa (fascist adjective)", an act consisting of throwing objects to images of public representatives. In the presence of journalists, the organizers concealed the celebration of the event and harassed the informants by insults, pushing and throwing drinks.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 35 05.08.2017. Galdácano (Vizcaya). Kepa del Hoyo. Type of act: Other tribute

Thousands of people honored in Galdácano the ETA terrorist Kepa del Hoyo, who died of a heart attack. Del Hoyo was serving a twenty-five-year prison sentence for providing ETA with information that allowed the gang to assassinate national police Daniel Villar Enciso. He also participated in the murder of policeman Modesto Rico in 1997.

04.08.2017. Vitoria (Álava). Festivities of Vitoria. Type of act: Popular festivals

Radicals took advantage of the festivities of Vitoria to pay tribute to ETA terrorists. The streets of the neighborhoods of Vitoria shown banners with the faces of up to 22 prisoners of the terrorist band and images of ETA´s terrorist Kepa del Hoyo, who died of a heart attack.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 36 01.08.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Mikel Oroz. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people, including children, received in Burlada the ETA´s terrorist Mikel Oroz, arrested in March 2011 and sentenced to serve nine years in prison for leading the logistics organization of the terrorist organization.

21.07.2017. Cendea de Olza (Navarra). Montxo Barea. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received ETA´s terrorist Montxo Barea in Cendea de Olza in Navarre. Barea was sentenced to six years in prison in France for his membership in the ETA logistics apparatus, as well as for his role in the structure in charge of falsifying documents. When he was arrested he was in a stolen car and carried a gun with ammunition along with numerous ETA´s documents and counterfeit identity documents.

17.07.2017. Rentería (Guipúzcoa). Xabier Lujambio. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received ETA´s terrorist Xabier Lujambio in Rentería. He was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for his membership in Segi, a youth organization declared illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court given his links with ETA.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 37 14.07.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya). Felipe San Epifanio. Type of act: prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receive the ETA terrorist Felipe San Epifanio in the Bilbao neighborhood of Indautxu. San Epifanio was condemned to almost two hundred years of prison for various crimes of terrorism. He murdered the Colonel of Infantary of the Army Leopoldo García Campos, he tried to murder four policemen in and put two bombs in two restaurants at the Puerto Olímpico of Barcelona.

03.07.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Iñaki Marín. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people, including children, received in the Pamplona district of Arrosadia, the ETA´s terrorist Iñaki Marín, who was sentenced to eleven and a half years in prison for participating in acts of Kale Borroka (urban guerrilla actions carried out by Basque nationalist youth who are integrated into the abertzale left) during a demonstration in the capital of Navarra in 2008.

27.06.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Iñaki Lerín. Type of act: prisoner welcome

Dozens of people receive in the Navarre location of Berriozar the ETA terrorist Iñaki Lerín, condemned by the National Audience to five years of prison for collaborating with armed band. He gathered explosives and figured out the logistics for the “comando Urederra”.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 38 26.06.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Iker Araguas. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people received the terrorist from ETA Iker Araguas in the neighborhood of Azpilagaña in Pamplona. The Spanish National Court condemned Araguas for the crime of public disorder with the aggravating of disguise and another crime of terrorist damage to serve four years, six months and one day in prison. In addition, the Spanish Supreme Court indicated that propaganda on behalf of ETA prisoners and SEGI documents was found at the home of Araguas. The sentence of the Spanish National Court concludes that Araguas acted "within the scope of the violence campaign ('kale borroka') developed by the terrorist group ETA and in support of the violent postulates advocated by that organization."

23.06.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Sanfermines. Type of act: Popular festivals

Days before the beginning of the Sanfermines, eleven of the sixteen Peñas(crowd)of Pamplona held a joint press conference in which, adding to the radical platform Sare-Nafarroa, they described ETA´s terrorists as "political prisoners". Days later, they presentd the banners of the crowds, many of them with radical messages and references to welcome ETA´s terrorists or to the ETA´s campaign "Alde Hemendik" ("Out of here").

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 39 23.06.2017. Vitoria (Álava). Diego Ugarte. Type of act: Popular festivals

During the festivities of the neighborhood of Judizmendi in Vitoria, ETA´s terrorist Diego Ugarte was honored, placing an image of him leading Sepharad Square. Ugarte was sentenced to more than one hundred years in prison for the murder in 2000 of the socialist parliamentarian Fernando Buesa and his escort, Jorge Díez.

15.06.2017. Vitoria (Álava). Alejo Moreno. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people, including children, received ETA´s terrorist Alejo Moreno in Vitoria, fled from Spain since 2003 and arrested in France in 2012 for his membership in Haika, a youth organization linked to ETA. Prior to his escape in 2003, he had already been in prison for a terrorist offense.

15.06.2017. Pamplona (Navarra). Arturo Villanueva. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received ETA´s terrorist Arturo Villanueva in the Pamplona neighborhood of San Juan, arrested in 2001 in a police operation against Jarrai, Haika and Segi for their links with youth

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 40 organizations close to the terrorist group ETA. In 2009 he was arrested again in Belfast and in 2012 in France. The Spanish National Court considered that Haika maintained a relationship of dependence and subordination to ETA, cooperating in its terrorist activity, as well as Jarrai, which was declared part of the ETA structure in 2007 by the Spanish Supreme Court.

26.05.2017. Ondárroa (Vizcaya). Xabier Aranburu. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

ETA´s terrorist Xabier Aranburu was received in Ondárroa. He was sentenced by the French justice to six years in prison for his membership in ETA's military logistics structure.

23.04.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Adur Fernández. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received in the neighborhood of Alza ETA´s terrorist Adur Fernández, member of Segi who was sentenced by the Spanish National Court to six years in prison for integration into a terrorist organization.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 41 18.04.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Aitor Olaizola Type of act: Prisoner welcome

The terrorist of ETA Aitor Olaizola condemned by the Spanish National Court to six years in prison for integration in terrorist organization and acts of Kale Borroka, was received by dozens of people in San Sebastian between cheers and applause.

31.03.2017. Vitoria (Álava). Nerea Bengoa Type of act: Prisoner welcome

After ETA member Nerea Bengoa left the prison on March 18th, the 31st she received a reception at the 'Korrika' race organized by the Azak nationalist collective as it passed through Vitoria. The ETA member, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison for her active participation in the Araba command and later in the Barcelona cooperating in the preparation of attacks, took the relay in the aforementioned race between cheers, applause and flares.

30.03.2017. Ansoáin (Navarra). Mercedes Chivite Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people in Ansoáin received the ETA´s terrorist Mercedes Chivite, sentenced by the French justice to twelve years in prison for being responsible for the international purchases of

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 42 arms of the terrorist band with his partner Felix Ignacio Lopez de Lacalle 'Mobutu'. The terrorist, during the trial in France, claimed her status as a member of ETA and said she was very proud of it, the French prosecutor pointing out the terrorist's total lack of remorse, blind fanaticism and high dangerousness.

22.02.2017. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Urtzi Etxeberría. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Dozens of people received the ETA´s terrorist Urtzi Etxeberría in the neighborhood of Amara Nuevo in San Sebastián. He was arrested in France in 2013 and sentenced by the French justice system to six years in prison for their integration into the terrorist band's logistic-military apparatus.

26.02.2017. Bilbao (Vizcaya). Arantza Zulueta. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

More than a hundred people received the ETA´s terrorist Arantza Zulueta in the down town of Bilbao between applause and tribute dances. She is accused of a crime of integration into a terrorist organization for which she is being prosecuted because she is considered to be one of those

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 43 responsible for the legal front of ETA known as 'Halboka', also for the crimes of depositing arms and explosives when a USB stick is in her office hidden behind a box that contained information on the location of several ETA caches.

08.01.2017. Usúrbil (Guipúzcoa). ETA´s demonstration in . Type of act: Others

Almost a thousand former ETA´s prisoners met in Usurbil to request the dissolution of the Spanish National Court, the end of the prisoner´s dispersion, the elimination of terrorist files and accelerate the departure of terrorists who meet their corresponding penalties of jail. In the statement read during the event, they referred to themselves as "people repressed by the fight", avoiding any mention of the ETA´s victims and their terrorist activity and they have finished the statement by sending a hug to their ETA partners who continue in prison with the following words: "We love you, the struggle continues”.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 44 Acts of exaltation of terrorism in 2016:

Year 2016 Number of acts September 2 December 1 Total 3

Type of acts Number of acts Prisoner welcome 2 Struggle sessions 1 Total 3

Place Number of acts Guipúzcoa 2 Vizcaya 1 Total 3

21.12.2016. San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa). Javier Balerdi. Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people, including children, received in Gros, a neighborhood of San Sebastian, the ETA terrorist Javier Balerdi with applause and cheers, dances corps dressed in traditional costumes that danced in his honor. Javier Balerdi's terrorist record is linked to the same city in which he was received, because there he murdered Luis García Lozano, Ángel Jesús Mota Iglesias (shot on March 13, 1990 while the victim was holding to his baby in arms), Gregorio Caño García, José Ángel Álvarez Suarez and Vicente López Jiménez, as well as being condemned as a necessary cooperator of the murders of José Lasanta and Ignacio Urrutia.

OBSERVATORY OF THE RADICALIZATION BY COVITE 45 27.09.2016. Hernani (Guipúzcoa). Tribute to ETA members in state school. Type of act: Others

On the occasion of the Gudari Eguna (day of the Basque soldier), fifty schoolchildren pay tribute to 22 members of ETA in a high school of Hernani. Among the images of ETA´s members that covered the walls of the high school and that were later carried by the students, it was the image of José María Larretxea Goñi, leader of ETA, or Juan Oyarbide Aramburu, allegedly involved in thirteen murders as well as José Manuel Aristimuño, alias Pana and involved in the murders of the head of the Miñones de Álava (police corps dependent on the Provincial Council of Álava that acts in this province) Jesús Velasco, responsible of the Municipal Police of Vitoria Eugenio Lázaro or of the agent of the CESID Antonio Recio.

17.09.2016. Lekeitio (Vizcaya). Andoni Gabiola Type of act: Prisoner welcome

Hundreds of people received in the streets of Lekeitio between applause and cheers ETA´s terrorist Andoni Gabiola, who is given a bunch of flowers on the steps of the City Hall. Afterwards, he enters the plenary hall where the mayor's seat was given to him and he took the floor to address the large audience that paid homage to him. The former member of the command Madrid was arrested in 2001 and served fourteen years in prison for his participation in the kidnapping of businessman Emiliano Revilla.

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