Murders of Vitoria 34 years later

Today there have been fulfilled 34 years of the murders of Victory, which they caused l to death to 5 workers and bullet wounds to more than 150. And while Raspberry Iribarne, political person in charge of the same continues in the active politics.

1976 was a watershed year for the fall of the dictatorship. It was doing a few months that the dictator would have died and the social and political mobilizations were multiplying for the Spanish state. The strikes against the decree of wage ceilings of the Navarrese Government of Arias were happening throughout the country. In Vitoria this March 3, 1976 there had been a general strike that was helped for the most part. The workpeople were celebrating an assembly in the Church of San Francisco of Vitoria.

Raspberry Iribarne, that of “the street is mine”, it could not allow a few workpeople to meet to organize themselves in defense of his labor law and of the civic and political freedoms. It ordered to evict of the form to which it was the church. The national police, sadly celebrate gray, they bombarded the church with tear gases and when the workpeople tried to go out of this retreat they were riddled to shots and beat by the police.

The police solved the situation that they had created to clean shot, murdering Pedro Maria Martínez Ocio, worker of Forges Of Alava, of 27 years, Francisco Aznar Clemente, worker of bakeries and 17-year-old student, Romualdo Barroso Chaparro, of Agrator, of 19 years, José Castillo, of Base, a society of the Group Arregui, of 32 years. Two months later there would die Welcome Pereda, worker of Distinguishing Groups, with 30 years. Instead of solving the conflict, the disputes multiplied and the general protest strikes happened for several months.

The Raspberry audacity had no limits he blamed from the deaths to the trade unions convocantes, fundamentally CC.OO., and to the workpeople. The podía to allow the workpeople to commit the crime of demanding democracy and freedom. From these events the democratic opposition to the dictatorship was unified. The Democratic Meeting and the Platform of Convergence fused in the Democratic Coordination or Platajunta on March 26.

As it was of expecting for them responsibly from the murders they remained unpunished, which shot and those who gave the orders and the victims stayed without indemnity, only after the approval of the law of the Historical Memory the victims of this event are considered to be victims of the Franco period.

Fragment of the conversations between the patrols responsible for the load in the church:

“-Charlie to J-1. Has the eviction order already come to the church? - if, if it has it J-3 and they have already proceeded to evict because you were not there. - very well, informed. And a pity that it was me who was not there. I try to communicate, but nobody answers. They must be in the church fighting like lions.: J-3 for J-1! J-3 for J-1! Order force for here. We have already shot more than two thousand shots.: how is life round there the matter? - you can suppose, after throwing more than thousand shots and breaking the church of San Francisco. You can imagine how the street is and how everything is.: thank you very much, eh! Good service!-Dile to Salinas, that we have contributed to the biggest drubbing of the history. - here there has been a massacre. I change. - in agreement, in agreement. - but really a massacre”

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Lluís Llach wrote on the following day the song Campanades to morts in homage to the victims. Today I want that it sounds again in a new homage

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