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Re: <nettime> The 201st Victim? |
indeed evrybody hope this would not mean that old europe would want to affimr its 'identitity' in wanting to open its own special guantanamo & federal police nor to say it's aznar that put the bomb, after all he just share the lie habits of its mentor bush, aznar know he censored the will & the desire of the spanish people when bush has achieved to really make to believe to american irak war was in the first priorities in the antiterrorist counterprotocol. i remember one thing after 11 sept, those so many american posts about the fact it was time to make peace beetween israel & palestine, there is the first evident step, the priority among all & i believe it's, & was, american & european reach, and even their people could understand et would be prepared they could have some own dead for that first 'war aim'..but hey i say just what vrybody know for so so so long time, but i suppose it's cause it's too protological ----- Original Message ----- From: <auskadi@tvcabo.co.mz> To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 5:19 PM Subject: <nettime> The 201st Victim? > I have been resisting starting anything on nettime about the aftermath > of 11M but this story has been buried by the media as far as I can tell. > > Spanish police officer kills member of "Gurasoak" association in Iruņea > Iruņea-born Angel Berroeta was killed in his bakery; the police officer > was arrested, as was his son > > Asier Azpilikueta - IRUŅEA (Pamplona) > > 61-year-old Angel Berroeta-Legaz from Iruņea was killed at midday > yesterday by a member of the Spanish Police in the bakery belonging to > the former located in the Donibane (San Juan) quarter of Iruņea. The > police officer was off duty and stabbed and shot Berroeta several times > after a heated argument. It was alleged to have been a political > argument (Berroeta was a member of the Gurasoak > <http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=322#> association). The > police officer who fired the shots was arrested and so was his son, who > was thought to have taken part in the argument. > > Angel Berroeta's bakery is at 18, Martin Azpilkueta street in the > Donibane quarter and the police officer lives next door in flat "C" on > the first floor. According to neighbours, at about 13.30 hours the > policeman's wife had had a heated argument with Berroeta about a poster > saying / ETA, ez / (No to ETA); the neighbours were eager to stress that > the woman did not go to that bakery to get bread, "as she always goes to > buy bread at the bakery opposite". > > The woman appears to have requested or demanded that Berroeta put a > poster in his shop window, but the latter refused. And that was how the > fatal argument began. After that the versions given by the neighbours > differ somewhat. Some say the police officer was outside and others that > he was in the flat. Whichever the case, the woman called the police > officer and he went into the bakery and shot and stabbed Berroeta > several times. > > The police officer and the woman left the bakery and went to their flat. > According to a witness in the same block of flats the woman said, "It > was my fault, it was my fault." > > see also: > > http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE9B0173-2B5A-421E-9ECA-54DF46AA8AAC.htm > > http://www.gara.net/orriak/P14032004/art74640.htm > > The Sydney Morning Herald, on eof the very few non Basque news outlets > to run this story said that > "Imprisoned members of ETA were assaulted immediately after the blasts, ..." > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/14/1079199096493.html > > In the light f this some recent reports on the situation of basque > prisoners might be a a little useful for nettimers: > > Van Boven: "In Spain torture is inflicted more frequently than > occasionally" > The UN Rapporteur has recommended among the many proposals put forward > that legislation permitting incommunicado detention be abolished, and > the Spanish Government has responded by rejecting the report "outright" > > Imanol Murua Uria - DONOSTIA (San Sebastian) > > Theo Van Boven, the United Nations Rapporteur on Torture, has concluded > in his report based on interviews and investigations conducted in the > Basque Country and in Spain last October that torture is inflicted "more > frequently than occasionally in Spain". He gives credence to the > testimonies of torture he heard, and despite saying that torture is not > "systematic", he does not believe that the complaints of bad treatment > have been "made up". > > As he believes that Spanish legislation opens up the way for torture and > bad treatment to take place, he has made specific suggestions to the > Spanish Government in his report due to be presented on March 15, but > which is already available on the web site of the UN Office for the High > Commissioner of Human Rights (www.unhchr.ch): among other things, in > order to safeguard the detainees' right to speak to their lawyers alone, > to guarantee the care of the doctor of their choice, to record the > interrogations on video, to identify the interrogators at all times and > to investigate torture claims independently, he has called for the > abolishing of the legislation that makes the holding of detainees > incommunicado possible. > > The Spanish Government has rejected all the recommendations in its > report in response to Van Boven's conclusions. Among many other reasons > the Spanish Government says that holding detainees incommunicado "in > Spain, at least" does not facilitate torture, in the report signed by > the Permanent Representation it has at the UN Headquarters in Geneva. > > Van Boven's report runs to 23 pages. In the main conclusions the UN > Rapporteur says "the system itself in Spain opens up the way for torture > and bad treatment especially when detainees are held incommunicado in > connection with terrorism." He argues that he received "reliable > information" to arrive at this conclusion. > > As the report states, the "reliable interviewees" indicated to Van Boven > that they suspected that the police "involved in the fight against > terrorism" resorted to torture and bad treatment "more frequently than > occasionally", and direct testimony of those detained and interrogated > "verified" this suspicion. According to the UN investigator, in the > first-hand testimonies he received, he was informed about blows, > exhausting physical exercises, insulting sexual persecution, and the > practice of suffocation with plastic material. In the report he wrote, > "The view of this Special Rapporteur is that in the light of the > information received and bearing in mind the specific nature of the > details of the events, these complaints of torture or bad treatment > cannot be regarded as having been made up." > > http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=309 > > "Dreadful year" for prisoners and relatives > The Etxerat association drew attention yesterday to the fact that curbs > on Basque prisoners' rights and the situation of their relatives were > "worsening by the day" and has called on institutions to put aside their > "indifference" and undertake effective initiatives > > Eider Goenaga - DONOSTIA (San Sebastian) > > "A dreadful year". That is how the Etxerat > <http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=312#> member Saioa Agirre > described 2003. The situation of the prisoners is becoming increasingly > worse; their relatives involved in 23 accidents; three killed on the > roads; two "fighting for their lives" as a result of a road accident; > illegal practices made legal; seriously ill prisoners beaten up; > expulsions, etc. The Etxerat association's assessment of 2003 presented > yesterday a list of all these things. Moreover, the fact that there are > more prisoners than ever who are more dispersed than ever must be added > to all this: there are 700 detainees in 80 prisons. > > Agirre went on to stress that the start of this year does not point to > any improvement, but rather the opposite. The prison transfers taken > place have been to move prisoners further away, other prisoners on > parole have been imprisoned, Manu Azkarate released under article 92 (*) > has been imprisoned again and moved away to Alcala. Etxerat members went > through the infringements of rights that took place last year, category > by category. > > * Death penalty: * Relatives going to visit Basque prisoners last year > suffered 23 road accidents and 100 people were involved in these accidents. > > * Financial drain: * Agirre denounced the fact that "Basque prisoners' > friends and relatives are suffering a tremendous financial drain to be > able to exercise the right of communication enshrined in Spanish and > French legislation". Indeed each family is spending an average of > 1,350.65 euros a month on travel. > > * Transferring people far away: * Last year there were 438 transfers; > 200 of them involved a change in destination. Over 70% of the changes in > destination were to take Basque prisoners further away from the Basque > Country. "The prisons of Galicia, Andalusia and Paris are full of > Basques," said Agirre. > > * Only 15 prisoners in the Basque Country: * The Spanish Government has > decided to take Basque political prisoners out of the Basque Country > prisons and Etxerat converted this into figures. Today there are six > political prisoners in Langraitz (Araba); seven in Martutene (Gipuzkoa), > two in Iruņea (Pamplona); not a single one in Basauri (Bizkaia). > > * Solitary confinement blocks: * Etxerat has accused the Spanish and > French government of "intensifying the prisoners' lack of protection"; > "they want them to feel alone in the blocks they have built to destroy > people physically and mentally. They have turned punishment cells into > "normal blocks" for Basque prisoners, says Etxerat. > > * In 'mitard' and alone: * Basque prisoners are also kept in solitary > confinement in French prisons, and not just in punishment cells > ('mitard') but in many prisons there is only one Basque prisoner. An > extreme case is that of Txuma Puy from Lekunberri (Navarre). He was > taken to Strasbourg last year; to visit him people have to travel over > 1,300 km and he is the only Basque prisoner there. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > (*) This article in the Criminal Code makes provision for release on > parole of prisoners who are seriously ill or who have incurable illnesses. > > http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=312 > > -- > http://www.auskadi.tk/ > "the riddle which man must solve, he can only solve in being, in > being what he is and not something else...." > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net