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Counsellor for Justice of the Basque Government: "ETA prisoners have to recognize that the damage caused was unfair"

  • Socialist Councillor Maria Jesús San José said that the Basque Government will work to ensure that, when ETA prisoners leave prison, the damage caused is acknowledged and that "the damage caused was unfair" is acknowledged.
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"We are not going to resign: they will meet an Euskadi who is exactly the opposite of what they fought when they go out to the street," said the new Basque Government Minister for Justice and Human Rights, María Jesús San José, only in Spanish, who does not know Euskera. Lehendakari made these statements at the opening of a conference of the summer courses of the UPV/EHU.

The San José Counselor is from the PSE-EE. So far, in the last legislatures, the Department has been in the hands of the PNV. The previous group, led by Nerea Melgosa, has launched probation policies, generally the third grade. The new counselor has not confirmed or denied that he will remain in office, according to Gara in this chronicle. However, according to the website of the Basque Government, it has stated that "a minority" complies with full prison sentences and "the majority live in freedom". "At the time" they will leave jail, he insisted, "recognizing the injustice of the damage that has been done." He has put the emphasis on all his speech: on acceptance.

The counselor explained that those charged for belonging to ETA will be equated with the rest of the prisoners and that the Basque Government's job is to "prepare" for everyone to return to the streets: "Because despite the terror a political project wanted to impose, the Basque Country was and is a plural community, and we have managed to make a community quite cohesive and advanced," he added. It has also given the data: The percentage of people convicted of "terrorism" is 10%.

The Justice Minister has said that it is "a decisive moment", as it will soon be three years since the management of the prisons of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa fell into the hands of the Basque Government, transferred on 1 October 2021. In addition to the political will, San José has stressed the need for the work of public employees working in prisons and in the process of reinsertion, as "indispensable tutoring for the successful completion of this penitentiary model".


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