The Basque political formations have called for the incidents recorded last Monday in Bilbao "not to be repeated" and have reiterated their rejection of what happened. At the same time, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Sumar have underlined the importance of not disclosing the origin of the people arrested.
In a discussion on Radio Euskadi, reported by Europa Press, several parliamentarians analyzed the monographic plenary session on Security, in which the disturbances on Monday in the Biscayan capital, linked to the call by Vito Quiles, were also addressed.
The jeltzale parliamentarian Ainara Zelaia has defended the need to open "a serene debate" on Security that "flees from the exaggeration that usually characterizes the extreme right but also from the goodism and denial that is usually done from the extreme left".
After censuring "firmly and energetically" Monday's events in Bilbao, and trusting that they "will not be repeated" this Saturday, she has likewise denounced the "acts of harassment suffered" by the Basque Police.
According to what she emphasized, "it carries out an essential public service, for which it has all our support. We reject all acts of violence as an instrument of political confrontation, it cannot be justified in any way and our total support for the Euskal Polizia, which seems to bother some to see it in the street, but for us it is a guarantee of security".
"We agree on many aspects" about security
Gorka Ortiz de Guinea (EH Bildu) has recalled that the specific plenary session "was intended to be the culmination of 33 meetings throughout the Basque Autonomous Community", in which different areas of security have been addressed "that, with nuances, from EH Bildu many aspects are agreed on". Likewise, he has condemned "categorically" the events of last Monday in bilbao.
In his view, the session was "at some moments even a total amendment to the approach that the Basque Government itself was making, conditioned by the events of Monday", and he has valued the consensus reached so that the origin of the arrested people is not reported.
He has warned that "it stigmatizes and contributes nothing to security, and let us hope that this is attended to by Mr. Zupiria -Security Minister-, this request from the majority of Parliament", to question "what has improved in the security of this country by reporting on origin?".
"Alarmism between immigration and delinquency"
The PSE-EE parliamentarian Ekain Rico considers that the plenary session "was very much mediated by what had happened in Bilbao" and has reiterated his willingness to "absolutely reject and condemn" these altercations, as he believes "the great social majority" of Euskadi does.
"He also does not want agitators like Vito Quiles to come and try to stir things up in our streets," he noted, to add that "we do not understand those who do not condemn certain things, nor those who, by the way, pay men like Quiles, the PP and Vox, to try to stir things up in our streets and in the streets of all Spain".
Rico calls for "a leap" in terms of Security through closer cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office and by fostering "the preparation of the citizenry itself". He has also expressed his support for the Euskal Polizia and his "rejection of the use of police data" in order to sow "alarmism between immigration and crime".
"It is not alarmism, but data"
The Basque PP parliamentarian Muriel Larrea maintains that "the data kill the narrative" and has reiterated that "Donostia and Vitoria are the first and second major capitals of Spain with the greatest increase in crime", something that, she stressed, "is not alarmism, they are simply data".
Larrea reproached councilor Zupiria that "he comes out saying that he does not know what the 'Blocus' phenomenon is" while the merchants are "covering their shop windows so that vandals do not come to break their work and years of effort".
In her opinion, "security does not work in Euskadi", and she added that "citizens do not feel safe when there are these calls to violence, because they know perfectly well that the orders from politicians to the Ertzaintza is to withdraw and not to give protection to citizens, because God forbid those who commit crimes get angry".
In relation to Vito Quiles, she stated that on Monday "a young man was going to hold a meeting and talk about his ideas, which we do not share, and yet there was a call to violence by the PSOE youth".
"Political use of security"
Jon Hernández, parliamentarian for Sumar, has considered, in reference to the incidents in Bilbao and to the debate itself, that "it is a sample of the political use that exists around the issue of security", and has rejected that Quiles is "a person who simply comes to show his political opinion".
"We already know that he is an ultra agitator who is also part of strategies that precisely seek, and have done so previously, that type of disturbances that we all condemn," he indicated, recalling that "that day in Bilbao in the morning there were thousands of Basque young men and women students who demonstrated exemplarily, peacefully against fascism and it seems that no one wants to talk about that".
Along these lines, he understands that that "attempt to criminalize youth and the left" has been "used as it is used against migrants", which is why he sees it as "important that the data not be given" about the origin of the detained people.