The president of the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), Maite Aralucetold the Popular Party and Vox that its apology after approving a legal reform that could reduce the years in prison for up to 44 ETA members “is very good”, but that in any case the measure “cannot not be canceled” and will eventually be canceled. published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
“Yesterday I spoke with Mr. Feijóo and I also spoke with Abascal and it is true that they both apologized, but hey, apologies are very good, but it has no inverse“, declared the president of the AVT in an interview with “La Mirada Crítica” of Telecinco, reported by Ep, in which she lamented that the victims felt “forgotten”.
Araluce shared that both the leader of the PP and that of Vox recognized that “they didn’t realize» and that they did not read an amendment by Sumar which modified the law on the exchange of information on criminal records and which validates for ETA prisoners the sentences they served in another country . The standard was unanimously approved in Congress on September 18.
“They admit to us that they smuggled it in“, continued the president of the victims’ association, recalling that two years ago she had organized a press conference explaining that “this” was one of Bildu’s demands, and that “sooner or later she was going to raise it” with the government.
Online, he assured that the Home office He then contacted the AVT and other associations and foundations of victims of terrorism, assuring “that this was not going to happen” and that ETA sentences served in other countries would not be validated. “But hey, once again, they’re lying to us again,” he said.
Asked if anyone from the Ministry of the Interior would have contacted the association after learning of the reform, Araluce replied no, but that today she is in Vitoria on the occasion of the United Nations International Congress on Victims of Terrorism and that, according to Minister Fernando Grande -Marlaska, he will tell him that he “lied to their faces” and that “Just laugh at the victims“.
