Urkullu asks EH Bildu to condemn ETA “once and for all” because it killed 853 people

He lehendakari of the Basque Government, Inigo Urkulluhas claimed EH Bildu that, “once and for all, condemn ETA“, because it has been “a terrorist organization” that killed 853 people and “injured, kidnapped, extorted and blackmailed” thousands of citizens.

Urkullu has made these statements before participating at an election eventl in the Biscayan town of Barakaldo, together with the candidate for Lehendakaritza for the PNV, Imanol Pradales, the president of the EBB, Andoni Ortuzar, and the mayor of the municipality, Amaia del Campo.

The president of the Basque Government has referred to the statements made by the candidate for lehendakari by EH Bildu, which has assured that ETA was an “armed group.” Urkullu has asked the formation of the Abertzale left if the words of Pello Otxandiano They are really the example of the cycle change that EH Bildu promotes”. In this sense, he has assured that ETA “was terror”, and “there is nothing more to say” than that the band “was terrorism”.

Damage to Basque society

According to Urkullu, “we must take into account the victims caused by ETA: 853 fatalities, and thousands of people injured, kidnapped, extorted and blackmailed. Not only did it harm the victims, it also harmed Basque society,” has assured.

For this reason, he has stated that it is “absolutely necessary that, once and for all, EH Bildu and Sortu” condemn what ETA was, which was a terrorist organization. “We have always been clear about it, and that is how we have also been working from the Basque Government for a memory that took into account all the victims, but based on the laws, also of solidarity with victims of terrorismalso with the law of historical and democratic memory”, he remarked.