Overview

• Sortu filled Pamplona’s Anaitasuna pavilion with an homage that organizers said drew about 4,000 people to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 executions.
• Secretary-general Arkaitz Rodríguez tied the memory of Txiki and Otaegi to a call for recognizing Basque nationhood and a right to decide, urging the Spanish government to act.
• Parallel gatherings in Zarautz and Mondragón featured youth mobilization, and in Mondragón two masked participants burned Spanish and French flags on stage.
• Victims’ associations including the Fundación Fernando Buesa and Covite, as well as the Basque Government, condemned the public tributes and warned against exaltation of ETA.
• The controversy revives the complex status of Txiki and Otaegi, whom the Basque executive recognized as victims in 2012 even as historical records link them to robberies, kidnappings and three murders.