A betrayal that we did not imagine the day that Sánchez's allies destroyed 5 girls

It happened on December 11, 1987, 35 years ago today. It was a time when we would see news of a new ETA attack every so often.

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That day, the terrorist group once again directed its criminal wrath against its favorite target: the Civil Guard, an institution whose history is full of pages of glory and service to Spain. The terrorists parked a car loaded with 250 kilograms of explosives next to the Barracks House in Zaragoza, where many relatives of Civil Guards lived. The assassins knew that there were children there, but they did not care. The bomb exploded at 6:10 in the morning, when many families were still asleep.

The building collapsed due to the explosion, which destroyed four of its floors. The attack killed 11 people, including 6 minors, of whom 5 were girls between 3 and 12 years old. In addition, the extremely strong explosion and the collapse of the building left 88 injured. These are the names and ages of those killed:

• José Julián Pino Arriero, civil guard, 39 years.
• His wife Carmen Fernández Muñoz, 38 years.
• His daughter Silvia Pino Fernández, 7 years.
• José Ignacio Ballarín Cazaña, civil guard, 31 years.
• His daughter Silvia Ballarín Gay, 6 years.
• Emilio Capilla Tocado, civil guard, 39 years.
• His wife María Dolores Franco Muñoz, 36 years.
• His daughter Rocío Capilla Franco, 12 years.
• Miriam Barrera Alcaraz, 3 years.
• Her twin sister Esther Barrera Alcaraz, 3 years.
• Miriam and Esther's uncle, Pedro Ángel Alcaraz Martos, 17 years.

Such savage attacks provoked a great deal of anger and indignation in Spanish society, especially among the victims. The response of our leaders to this anger was always the same: they asked us to trust in the rule of law and told us that the terrorists would be arrested and the full weight of the law would fall on them.

What we did not imagine then is that a Spanish government would end up allying itself with the heirs of ETA, led by the terrorist Arnaldo Otegui (who was an active member of ETA at the time), to settle its accounts using the expulsion of the Civil Guard from Navarre, the legalization of the apology of terrorism and the benefits and the transfer of ETA prisoners to Basque prisons as a bargaining chip. Concessions that reached the infamy of bringing forward the release of one of the perpetrators of that attack in Zaragoza to coincide with the day that marked the 33rd anniversary of the attack. The height of humiliation for the victims.

At the same time as they were making pacts with ETA's heirs, the socialists were launching into its whitewashing. Last summer, Sánchez stated "ETA no longer exists", describing it as "bad news" for the right-wing deputies, deputies among whom is Francisco José Alcaraz, a relative of three of the minors killed in that attack in Zaragoza. Sánchez not only wants us to forget about ETA and its crimes, but he is also trying to promote the infamy that the victims enjoyed his suffering. That miserable man knows no shame, decency or honour.

The most recent episode of this whitewashing has been the socialist censure against a Vox deputy for calling the pro-ETA members "pro-ETA members" , a censure that has been accompanied by a campaign by the government and its related media to criminalize the parliamentary opposition for its firmness against terrorists. And as if that were not enough, now Sánchez, hand in hand with his pro-ETA and separatist partners, is preparing to liquidate the separation of powers in Spain, one of the pillars of that rule of law in which we were asked so much to trust every time ETA committed a crime.

With his pact with the heirs of ETA and his attack on the rule of law, Sanchez is trampling on the blood of the victims. It is one of the most serious betrayals and one of the most despicable acts that he has committed during his mandate, and it is the duty of all good Spaniards that the memory of this betrayal haunts Sánchez for the rest of his days.