The mayor of Mondragón family of Isaias Carrasco: “we were Not at height”

A decade to overcome the hatred. The Municipality of Mondragon, a traditional bastion of the nationalist left, although now rules the PNV, has needed ten years to leave behind the hatred, or at least refer you to a dead satellite and pay homage to one of their councillors, Isaiah Carrasco (PSE), the ETA murdered at the door of his home of five shot to death on march 7, ten years ago.

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After long months of talks, the mayor of the PNV, Maria Ubarretxena has taken the floor in the hall of plenos Town hall, in a simple but intense tribute to the woman and three children exconcejal of the PES: "we didn't have to be at the height of the circumstances," lamented the mayor. Ubarretxena has made the city Hall available to the family and friends of the victim, to repair, to the extent possible the long-forgotten. "We want to move forward in a shared memory, but no match to the victims", has been said to move away from any semblance of equidistance between victims of ETA and other types of violence. In front of her was the spokesperson of EH Bildu by Sortu, Eneko Barberena and other municipal groups.

A minute before the older daughter of Isaiah Carrasco, Sandra, has had a few words, precisely, to those who yesterday were for the first time, a tribute to his father, and especially for those who, from the nationalist left have directed the city Hall to the legislature: "I Know that some of you are not heart-in this act, but I thank you the same," he said after explaining that "we have to leave behind the hatred, the rage, and put all of our part" to launch a co-existence in the following generations.

The tribute, simple, with classical music from violins and double-bass background, was applauded by all in the plenary hall, in which sat, among others, the Government delegate in the Basque Country, Jesus Loza, the former president of the PES, Jesus Egiguren, and the director of the Institute of the Memory of the basque Government, Aintzane Ezenarro. In the room was also a former mayor of Mondragón in the basque pro-independence left and at least one express ETA. From this afternoon, Oleybet a plaque commemorates the entrance of the plenary hall the figure of the socialist killed.

The exconcejal councillor in Mondragón from June 2003 to may 2007. In the municipal elections celebrated the 27 of may of 2007, he occupied the sixth position on the list presented by the PSE to the town Hall of Arrasate-Mondragón and led by Francisco Garcia Raya. Isaiah was 42 years, and three children, two girls, Sandra of 20 years and Ainara of 17 and a child, Hodei four. The five shot stopped his heart, but also “froze the hearts of many neighbors closed their windows and left us alone in our protests,” he recalled in 2014 his daughter Sandra. This evening has become to remember the loneliness and the insults of those days: "ye were come forth out to the street and you could see tributes to prisoners, and posters, and to me, revolting and hated it," he recalled.

the agreement of all The groups has not emerged out of nothing. Representatives of EH Bildu was attended by states this year for the first time in the tribute that the PES and the family of Isaiah held annually in conjunction to your house, in the street, where a gunman descerrajó five shots. This was not the first occasion on which the representatives of the coalition attended tributes to victims of ETA, but that morning was special. Representatives of the PSE, the basque Government, through the director of the Institute Gogora of the Memory, Aintzane Ezenarro—, daughter of Isaiah Carrasco, Sandra, and speaker's parliamentary by EH Bildu, the independent candidate for lehendakari by the coalition for independence, Maddalen Iriarte was granted a warm reception and after participated united in the floral offering.

In July of 2017, Julen Arzuaga, a member of EH Bildu and a member of Sortu, was placed on the first line in the tribute that was held in Ermua, Miguel Angel Blanco. It was the first time that a member of Sortu went to this event along with the rest of the matches. In 2014 he produced the first, just three years after ETA to abandon weapons. The then spokesman of Sortu, Pernando Auger, came to the tribute to the entrepreneur, Joxe Maria Korta, murdered by ETA in the door of your company, in Zumaia.