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Thousands of people remember the workers killed in Vitoria on 3 March 1976

In an act, they have stressed that they will continue to "work against impunity for state crime."

Varias personas durante una concentración por el 50 aniversario de la matanza del 3 de marzo de 1976 en Vitoria, a 3 de marzo de 2026, en Vitoria, Álava, País Vasco (España). La manifestación está organizada por Martxoak 3 Elkartea y los sindicatos ELA, LAB, ESK y Steilas y recuerda la matanza que la policía armada realizó reprimiendo una asamblea de obreros en huelga matando a cinco de ellos durante los primeros meses de la transición.



Iñaki Berasaluce / Europa Press

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Image of the rally in memory of the victims of the massacre. Photo: Europa Press

Thousands of people have gathered today, Tuesday, at an event called by the March 3 Association and various unions and agents to commemorate and pay tribute to the workers killed in Vitoria on March 3, 1976, in which they have stressed that they will continue to "work against impunity for state crime . "

The tribute was held in the monolith in memory of the victims, next to the church of San Francisco, and was preceded by the recording of that day's police station, where one of the officers described it as a "massacre . "

The event began withthe commemoration of Garcia Lorca's poem A las 5 de la tarde (1976 events and today's tribute time), in which the Victims' Association read a statement stating that "we workand will continue to work against the inflammation and impunity of state crime ".

"This act is a tribute to those who for 50 years have kept alive the flame of March 3. These dead are from all over Vitoria. The model of impunity in Spain condemned us to forget, even though today everyone wants to be photographed."

People who put the monolith in 1984 in the same place where one of the five workers, Pedro Martínez de Ocio, was murdered have also taken to the stage for reconnaissance.

It is a monolith made by members of the Forjas Alavesas company, which had to be placed "at night and with fast cement" because in previous years they had been prevented by the police. "Today is a meeting place for the memory of the workers," they stress.

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