The controversy over the disappearance of ETA from the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union continues to grow. According to the documentation to which you have had access Digital Freedomthe band is no longer on the “consolidated list” that the EU Council reviews every six months, at least from July 2023. The news has provoked a reaction from Vox in the European Parliament, which has requested urgent explanations from Brussels, and has generated deep concern among victims’ associations.
The president of Dignity and Justice, Daniel Porterohas shown his indignation in statements to Digital Freedom: “With so many cases to be solved (which are 376, almost 40% of the murders without justice for the victims), they remove the terrorist organization ETA from the European list, as if it no longer existed. Especially when today we have a list of more than 30 escaped from the terrorist organization that could clarify hundreds of murders and that they are in Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba and in Sao Tome as well.”
For Portero, what the Government of Pedro Sánchez is doing, “pro Bildu and pro support of ETA terrorists” is “an absolute shame”, an “absolute contempt” and a “moral blow” towards the victims: “For five blood votes from Bildu they are capable of doing so much damage to Spain and above all to the families of the victims who have trampled us. It is the worst Government in all of democracy, the most traitor and criminal that all the victims of terrorism have been able to experience.”
“ETA was not dissolved in 2018”
The president of Dignidad y Justicia explains that, regardless of what the Government wants us to believe, ETA still exists. “ETA was not dissolved in 2018. The blood pact that Bildu carried out with the Socialist Party in April 2018, where Santos Cerdan had a very important relevance, it was, of course: to bring all the ETA prisoners closer to the Basque Country, to cede the powers so that those of the Basque Government would release them, which is what is happening, and to solve the problem that those fleeing from ETA had.”
And he adds: “You have to get an idea that in May 2018 there were 65 escaped from the terrorist organization with pending cases. Today there are only 30. That is, more than half have gone unpunished before the law without clarifying anything at all. Absolutely nothing has been demanded of them.”
“That is, we have a Government that does not care about 376 families who have not had justice in Spain. Their mouths are always filled with Francoismthey fill their mouths with the gutters, but they do not resolve this: provide justice for 376 families and demand that Bildu, ETA and all the fugitives who are legalizing through the back door of the terrorist organization clarify the murders, even though they are already prescribed so that the truth is known. But not even the truth is capable of demanding this Government.”
The controversy also coincides with a particularly symbolic date for the victims: the 30th anniversary of the murder of the jurist and former president of the Constitutional Court Francisco Tomás y Valiente, murdered by ETA on February 14, 1996 in his office at the Autonomous University of Madrid. A reminder that memory, justice and truth remain an outstanding debt.
date: 2026-02-15 00:02:00