"Only from justice and truth can we guarantee respect for the dignity of the victims", with these words, the president of the Victims of Terrorism Foundation, Tomás Caballero, complained to King Felipe and Queen Letizia and the Minister of the Interior , Fernando Grande-Marlaska, dignified treatment for those killed by terrorism.
Caballero gave his speech at the National Auditorium before giving way to the XXI concert in memory of the victims of terrorism, a recital presided over for another year by the King and Queen and which coincides with the day that Grande-Marlaska has defended the rapprochement of the prisoners from ETA to Basque prisons.
Faced with this, Caballero recalled the right of victims "to demand justice, to combat everything that in practice translates into impunity. Justice is to investigate unresolved cases and avoid any discrimination at the time of reparation among the victims ". As for the truth, the president of the foundation has insisted that "any attempt to impose a laundering story" not be accepted. In this regard, "any story that defends the benefits of a target hit by the terrorists, will be maintaining that the life and integrity of the victims was an acceptable price", he has reflected. He has also insisted that the victims of terrorism bear "the enormous task of educating against hatred, confrontation and sectarianism."
Caballero, who in his speech recalled Diego Valencia, the sacristan murdered in Algeciras in a terrorist attack, has asked that the State make an effort to protect "the dignity and security" of the victims.
With this recital, in which this year the RTVE orchestra and choir have performed Carmina Burana, a tribute is paid to the 193 victims who died in the terrorist attacks of 11-M. The Kings have arrived at the National Auditorium half an hour after seven in the evening and have been received by a long ovation of more than a minute before the public gathered in a full auditorium.
A few hours before the concert, Minister Marlaska delivered 11 large crosses of the Royal Order of Civil Recognition to the victims of Terrorism in memory of those killed in attacks. In that act, Marlaska pointed out that eta was "defeated" for "the sacrifice of the victims of terrorism" and affirmed that "the dispersal prison policy was an anti-terrorist policy" but also said that "sentences must be served as close to the social and family environment" of the prisoner.
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