PNV and EH Bildu will ask Congress today to declassify the Zabalza case after 40 years
PNV and EH Bildu will ask the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, to declassify all documentation relating to the murder of Mikel Zabalza at today's monitoring session in the Congress of Deputies.
Zabalza, a bus driver and a member of the ELA union, was arrested on 26 November 1985 in Donostia-San Sebastián and transferred to the Intxaurrondo barracks as part of an anti-terrorist operation. Twenty days later, his body appeared on the Bidasoa River. Over the years , testimony appeared that he had died under torture in the barracks.
For her part, EH Bildu MP Jon Iñarritu will ask Bolaños to specify what stepstheSpanish Government intends to take to "clarify the cases of Mikel Zabalza".
In March 2024, Bolaños refused to declassify documents in Congress saying that doing so "would affect national security. "It was the same response he gave to the Aldana case, the explosion in a bar in Alonsotegi in 1980, claimed by the Spanish Armed Groups and considered a precedent of dirty war.
The then PNV spokesman, Aitor Esteban, complained that this information remained secret four decades later and questioned whether the government was "terrified by the police." Bolaños then argued that the criteria for declassifying information were in line with European standards and that documentation was only provided when requested by a court and did not endanger national security.
The Minister also recalled the processing of the new Classified Information Act, which the Government sent to Congress last August. The rule would replace the pre-constitutional legislation, which is still in force, but the full debate remains.
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