The citizens' network for the support of ETA prisoners, Sare, has considered an act of "revenge" the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of the Central Court of Penitentiary Surveillance of the National Court to appeal the grade progression granted to the organization's prisoner Jon Olarra Guridi, and has underlined that "revenge does not alleviate the suffering of the victims".
In a public statement, Sare has maintained that the actions of the public prosecutor's office show a stance that "has little to do with justice and much to do with revenge promoted from judicial, political, and media lobby circles".
The collective recalls that the grade progression was agreed upon after, once "the situation of the inmate was analyzed and closely known" by the professionals who are part of the treatment boards of the penitentiary centers, it was concluded in favor of that change. Therefore, Sare considers it "very serious" that "an exceptional court located 400 kilometers away," referring to the National Court, "appeals and annuls the decision of the professionals".
"Therefore, we issue our public denunciation of the political use being made of all this, using the pain of the victims to argue for these types of decisions," the support network has stated.
For Sare, "revenge does not alleviate the suffering of any victim" because, as it recalls, "they demand the recognition of their pain and the non-political use of it." "Let's leave the victims in peace," it has demanded.
At the same time, it has appealed to Basque society to "continue taking steps in favor of peace and coexistence," something that, in its opinion, "can only be achieved through a humanistic prison policy, far from revenge and with dignified treatment for the victims of all violence."