Today at Berria:
Tribute paid in the Kultur Parkea to the detainees in the two operations
Remembering that three out of the eighteen detainees are still behind bars, the nine detainees returning from Madrid received a warm welcome in the event organised yesterday in the Martin Ugalde Kultur Parkea
Eider Goenaga – ANDOAIN (Gipuzkoa)
Eighteen people were arrested in the two police operations connected with Egunkaria ordered by Judge Juan Del Olmo and tribute was paid to all of them during the event organised in the Martin Ugalde Kultur Parkea yesterday. The main protagonists were the detainees freed the day before yesterday: Joxe Mari Sors, Joanmari Larrarte, Mikel Arizabalaga, Mikel Sorozabal, Mikel Azkune, Xabier Legarra, Angel Diez, Amando Hernandez and Enekoitz Etxeberria; they were joined on the stage by the people who had been detained and released in the previous operation. Three names were in everyone’s minds and there was a round of applause from the people who had gathered there for the relatives present on behalf of Iñaki Uria, Xabier Oleaga and Xabier Alegria, the three people missing in Andoain yesterday.
Hundreds of people congregated at the Martin Ugalde Kultur Parkea and had difficulty getting in. The event had to be held indoors because of the bad weather and the assembly hall was too small for everyone to squeeze inside. At 18.20 the journalist Maddalen Iriarte spoke and thanked everyone present. “All the doors are open today because there are no secrets in the Martin Ugalde Kultur Parkea,” she said, before inviting Joan Mari Torrealdai, the former chairman of the Egunkaria board of directors, to explain what the Kultur Parkea is.
Torrealdai said he recalled the photo taken 16 months ago when the Kultur Parkea was inaugurated, and stressed “what a sad photo it is when you look at it today.” “Most of us on the stage then had to pass through the cells of the Spanish Civil Guard and go before the judge when our only crime was to promote Basque companies. The photo depicts Angel Diez of Graficas Lizarra; Joxe Mari Sors of the Euskalgintza Elkarlanean Fundazioa; Iñaki Uria, the Egunkaria Managing Director; Joanmari Larrarte, the promoter of the Parkea, and myself speaking. Martin Ugalde’s son Unai also accompanied us on the stage representing his father and we all know how Martin Ugalde has been treated.”
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