The Civil Guard arrested Mirentxu Purroy, director of the newspaper Egin, and Mikel Lerrora, chief sales officer. They were transferred to the headquarters of La Salve in Bilbao, whose arrest was related to information from the Basque Press agency published by Egin on the headquarters. It said that Euskadiko Ezkerra reported that an EIA militant and a Mungia councilor had been tortured at that barracks.

Mirentxu Purroy, director of Punto y Hora magazine, was arrested years earlier.