31.7.1997. Analysis of July 1997 in Euskal Herria.

THE "JULIAZO". IN JULY 1997 THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT ORGANISED AGAINST THE BASQUE LEFT NATIONALIST MOVEMENT THE BIGGEST FASCIST MOBILISATION KNOWN IN EUROPE SINCE THE EXTINCTION OF NAZI GERMANY.

10. «Nights of Broken Glasses». Spontaneous attacks on HB headquarters led by policemen disguised as angry citizens and called by «pacifist» groups. And protected by policemen in their uniforms.

The «pacifist» groups in the Basque Country and in Spain have culminated with the JULIAZO their roll of disguised counterinsurgency State’s apparatuses and have cashed in on the public funds that subsidised their work (apart from the aid and awards of the Government from Madrid, the support from the Basque sepoy Government amounted 50 million since 1992 for Gesto por la Paz ). (14)

They called the gatherings later used by policemen, civil guards and ertzainas in plain clothes to take people from there and march and attack the headquarters and bars of HB and lynch the people there, just like in the «Broken Glasses Nights» during Nazi times. To the point that Gesto por la Paz was compelled on Wednesday 16 to try to set down their difference from mobilisations and marches finishing in attacks on people and properties of the Left Nationalist Movement.

Those marches were protected by armed policemen in their uniforms, and this protection was later «sold» as «paradoxical and exemplary protection of the violent Nationalists by the very same police they fight». I myself saw the night from 12 to 13 under my balcony in Pamplona how a bare dozen of brave nationalist young (thousands of their comrades where singing and dancing at the fair-ground a kilometre away) beat off with their sheer courage and skill in urban struggle some hundreds of freaks conducted by policemen in plain clothes. An hour later I saw them again trying to march towards the Herriko Taberna (social headquarters and bar of HB) in Jarauta Street, the same freaks this time lead and protected by a row of 40 policemen with their helmets, shields and launcher-guns profusely used, without succeeding in occupying Jarauta Street. The same happened throughout the streets of the Basque Country (EGIN’s front page title that 16th was «police protection to the anti-abertzale violence») and ertzainas, policemen and civil guards in plain clothes were identified as agitators of the lynchings (up to four Navarre policemen have been identified). The Festivities Committee of Santutxu sued Gesto por la Paz and on page 13 in EGIN on July 31 there was an information about the report in the Court about the «exploits» of a Ertzaintza sergeant.

An absurd mistake of the PNV daily Deia gave another evidence of what I’m accounting. They published a very clear and close picture of «pacifists» «peacefully» kicking the shutters of a Herriko Taberna. And they covered their faces just the same way TVs and mass-media hide policemen faces so as they aren’t recognised!

The daily EL MUNDO stood out for its objective fomentation of the lynchings. Besides the director’s article entitled «HB has to pay for this» (announced on the title page on the 12th), on Saturday 12, Sunday 13 and Monday 15 they published the pictures and names of the members of HB’s National Executive. On Thursday 17 they published a sickening picture which seemed a copy from a Nazi paper from 1933: a baker at her bakery with the title BOYCOTT IN ERMUA: THEY SAY THIS BREAD BELONGS TO HB. EL MUNDO was also protagonist of a shameful distortion of a sociologic poll.

11. The sociologist Carlos Malo de Molina prostituted his profession when he allowed that, in order to support the made up news that HB would lose 30.000 votes after the death of the PP councillor, EL MUNDO roughly distorted a poll directed by him.