Euskaraz irakurri: Franciso Ruiz ETAren biktima: “‘Don’t call me Veal’ filmeko zuzendariek lan bikaina egin dute”

This Saturday it was presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival the documentary Don’t call me Veal, a feature film by Màrius Sánchez and Jordi Évole that has come with controversy and in whose presentation, Évole himself has said that “it is an anomaly of this country that does not know how to look at its past, even if it hurts.” Once viewed, the film has had the approval of the public, who have expressed this before the EITB cameras.

Among the spectators, Francisco Ruiz, the municipal police officer of Galdakao who was badly injured in the attack that cost the life of the town’s mayor in 1976. An attack that Josu Urrutikoetxea talks about in the film. His intervention opens and closes the film, which Netflix will release in December.

This afternoon-night, when the first public screeninghave been heard several minutes of applause at the Kursaal in San Sebastianaddressed to the authors of the documentary and Francisco Ruiz, who was accompanied by family and whom Évole has encouraged to address the public. He has said that the directors of Don’t call me Veal They have done “a phenomenal job” and have remembered the victims of ETA.

“I had to leave the Basque Country like someone plagued”

Ruiz explained that after surviving the attack in which Urrutikoetxea participated, whom he called a “murderer” and a “psychopath”, he had to leave the Basque Country “like a plague victim”, “without a penny in his pocket” and without support. “neither from the Basque Government nor from the Spanish Government, nor from society itself.” “It was very painful,” he said. To which he added that “as I have been a man of peace, I would like this 55-year story to appear in textbooks.”

Among those attending the screening was Jesus Eguigurenthe former president of the PSE who participated in the negotiations that led to the declaration of the ETA truce in 2006 and who had Veal between the band’s interlocutors.

They also attended, and took part in the subsequent discussion, the journalist Gorka Landaburuvictims of ETA, as well as Pili Zabalaformer Basque parliamentarian and sister of José Ignacio Zabala, who along with José Antonio Lasa was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by members of the Civil Guard in 1983. “I would also like to vindicate those unrecognized victims and many others whose loved ones do not know who “They were his murderers,” said Zabala, who was also widely applauded.

For his part, Landaburu has assured that he has not been “disappointed” by the film, “but he has been disappointed by the character.” “I have seen him older, he is my age, he is a man with no future, he will carry that backpack to the end, like many others. I agree with Pili that there are many stories left to tell. I am going to reproach certain people for having signed a letter without seeing the documentary. Here we are transversal people, of different ideologies, that is the work we have to do, get together, dialogue and seek the truth, justice,” he stressed.

Source: Eitb

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