On January 23, 1995, the terrorist group ETA murdered Gregorio Ordóñez, a regional deputy and councilor for the Popular Party.
The murder was carried out with a shot to the head when Gregorio was eating with other people in a restaurant in the Old Town of San Sebastian. Today, 30 years after that crime, the CEU-CEFAS Observatory of Victims of Terrorism has released the documentary "This is a true story", directed by Iñaki Arteta.
In the documentary we can hear the testimonies of Ana Iríbar, Gregogio's widow; Javier, his son; María San Gil, who was with Gregorio at the time he was murdered; and José María Aznar, former president of the government, whom ETA tried to assassinate in an attack carried out three months after Gregorio's murder (the video is in English, you can activate automatic subtitles in Spanish in the bottom bar of the player):
I thought the documentary was excellent and it made me think about how much we have to do to convey to today's youth what happened in Spain during the years when ETA murdered 853 people, including 22 children and babies. Keeping the memory of ETA's victims alive is especially important at a time in Spain's history when we are experiencing the infamy of seeing the government allied with the heirs of that terrorist gang, totalitarians who have never condemned ETA's crimes, who have never asked for forgiveness for all the deaths and pain they caused, and who still today whitewash these criminals by calling those serving sentences for the crimes they committed "political prisoners."
Today there is much talk of "historical memory" and "democratic memory" from the same left that seeks to subdue the brutal wave of separatist terrorism perpetrated by ETA for decades until July 30, 2009, when this mafia stopped killing simply because the socialists decided to give in to their blackmail. We must not forget that in addition to the people killed, injured and mutilated, ETA expelled 180,000 Basques and Navarrese from their homeland, a mass exile caused by terrorism and which today electorally benefits those who for many years instigated and justified ETA's crimes and pointed out its objectives, and today organize tributes to the murderers with total impunity thanks to the complicity of the Sánchez government.
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Photo: Efe.
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