Donostia opens a street exhibition on the disappearance of "Pertur" to demand truth and justice

Okendo Square in Donostia-San Sebastián hosts from this Tuesday the exhibition "Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe Pertur. Disappearance without victims " , organized by the Basque Memory Institute, Gogora, in which, in addition to the director of the institution, Alberto Alonso, the Counsellor for Justice and Human Rights of the Basque Government, María Jesús San José, and the mayor of the city, Jon Insausti, participated.

The exhibition, consisting of 22 panels, will be available until November 2, when Pertur would have turned 76.

"I would like to reiterate here today the right of the families of those who disappeared during the transition to be finally free from this search and to rest, "San José said at the event.

The Councillor has called on the State to "fulfil its responsibility" and to strive to clarify these crimes. He has also addressed those who may know any information about the disappearance: "To break fear and help, only in this way can we heal, decades later, the incurable wound of his absence."

Lurdes Auzmendi, the couple of Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe atthe time of his disappearance, has participated in the inauguration through a video message, as well as his relatives and relatives. Auzmendi has sent a unanimous request from the Moreno-Bergaretxe family for anyone who knows "the slightest hint or detail about what happened on the A0" to provide this information, even anonymously.

The exhibition explores the context of Late Francoism and the Transition, the last months of 'Pertur' 's life, and hypotheses about the authorship of his disappearance, still unresolved five decades later. Through family photographs, handwritten letters by 'Pertur', images of press professionals of the time, and hemerotheque documents, the exhibition combines historical narrative with a vision centered on memory and human rights, according to the government.

The final part of the exhibition focuses on the sufferingof the family , especially of the parents, and the lack of recognition of the victims of the institutions. Gogora denounces that the Moreno-Bergaretxeas "have not achieved truth, justice or reparation" and have undergone a process of continuous revictimization. The exhibition also recalls other people who are still missing in the context of politically motivated violence in the Basque Country: José Humberto Fouz, Jorge Juan García, Fernando Quiroga and José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, 'Naparra'.