family and friends José Antonio Lasa And José Ignacio ZabalaETA members were kidnapped, tortured and He was killed by GAL in 1983. They will organize an event this Saturday Memorial service in Busotwhere their bodies were discovered on the occasion of the incident It’s the 40th anniversary of his disappearance.
On October 15, it will be 40 years since Lasa and Zabala were kidnapped in the Basque-French town of Bayonne, so the Egiari Zor Foundation has organized a series of events in their memory, starting with a tribute to the two. ETA members were killed in the town of Alicante.
Lasa and Zabala, aged 20 and 21 respectively, were abducted in Bayonne (France) on October 15, 1983. Three months later, in a statement sent to Radio Alicante, it was announced that both had been killed by the GAL. The fact that he was unknown gave him credibility.
A hunter found two bodies January 20, 1985 in a place known as Bays FoyaAt Busot, they were buried in a natural grave about six meters deep. Quicklime under 50 kilos.
The bodies could not be identified and remained in the Alicante cemetery until they were confirmed to be those of Lasa and Zabala in 1995.
For these events, the National Court sentenced the former civilian governor of Gipuzkoa, Julen Elgorriaga, to 71 years in prison in April 2000; Civil Guard General Enrique Rodríguez Galindo 69 years in prison; and the same sentence was given to Lieutenant Colonel Ángel Vaquero.
Enrique Dorado and Felipe Bayo, the civilian guards of the Intxaurrondo barracks, were also sentenced to 67 years and 8 months in prison as materially responsible for the crime.
On July 25, 2001, the Supreme Court increased the prison sentences given to the five convicts by four years, considering that they had exceeded their duties by unlawfully detaining Lasa and Zabala.
Rodríguez Galindo was imprisoned for less than five years and was then allowed to serve his sentence outside prison for health reasons.
commemorative events
His family and friends, as well as Sortu’s political representative, will go to that spot this Saturday, under the chairmanship of Haimar Altuna, member of the General Council of this party, to offer flowers at the place where his remains are located. in 1985, but they were not identified until 10 years later.
In addition, next Tuesday, the 10th, the film shot by Basque director Pablo Malo about this incident will be shown in front of high school students in Tolosa (Gipuzkoa), the hometown of Lasa and Zabala.
After the screening of this film, which was shown at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 2014, students will participate in a discussion with the relatives of the victims, moderated by the former director of the newspaper Berria Martxelo Otamendi.
The event program will end with a commemoration event to be held at the Topic museum in Tolosa on October 20.
Source: Informacion
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