The assessment committee recognizes 60 other people as victims and proposes that the police centre declare them a "memorial centre for torture"

The Basque Commission for the Recognition of Victims of Police Violence has recognized 60 other persons as victims and has requested that the centres where they were repeatedly tortured memorial centres be converted, including the barracks of the Civil Guard of Ntxaurrondo (San Sebastián) and La Salve (Bilbao) and the headquarters of the National Police in Indautxu (Bilbao) and Amara (San Sebastián).

The majority of those who have been recognized as victims , 54, were subjected to ill-treatment or torture, one of whom died as a result of them. Con the other four were shot, three were shot by state security forces and the other by vigilante groups.

With these new cases published in the latest report, the Government has already recognized 305 victims of police violence, as explained by the President of the Commission, Juana Balmaseda , who has also claimed that the act of collective recognition should not be delayed any longer and has added a new demand that centres that repeatedly appear as places of torture should become places of memory.

The report stresses that "certain detention centres appear repeatedly as places of torture". With the exception of the police headquarters in Donostia-San Sebastián, where the transfer took place, the other three police centres continue to operate today.

Some of the cases in the report

Among the cases listed in the document is that of E.M.S., who was arrested in 1982, first transferred to the barracks of the Antigua district of San Sebastián and from there to Madrid. During his nine days in solitary confinement, he was subjected to ill-treatment and humiliation, according to the report. He died three days after being released.

The other deceased in the report is a member of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos, who in November 1978 were shot dead in Arrasate by the Civil Guard after being shot by one of the civilian guards who followed his command after an attack in Aretxabaleta.

The report also highlights that the most serious torture was against women, who were subjected to sexual threats and ill-treatment.

The Chairman of the Commission, Balmaseda, has stated that 284 files remain to be examined and that the assessment work could be completed by 2028.