Sare wants the January 2027 demonstration to be the last to stage the final closure of the issue of ETA prisoners

"Transition Period", "End of aStage "," Final Step "... These are the words spoken today by Sare citizen to describe what the 2026-2027 may or should mean in the case of ETA prisoners. In fact, Sare wants the demonstration of 9 January 2027  (which for many years is held in Bilbao at the beginning of the year to claim the rights of this group) to be " the last".

Sare held a massive event this afternoon in Mondragon, Monterrón Park, where spokesmen for Sare Ciudadano Nahikari Iturbe and Joseba Azkarraga reviewed their journey since 2014 and acknowledged with "prudence but sincerity" that in these 12 years "the situation has changed." Moreover, they believe that the period 2026-2027 can be considered a transition period with a "firm will to take the final step."

In this sense, in this new scenario they have considered it appropriate to "adapt the dynamics" of action and to adapt the mobilizations to the new reality. In Sare's view, it is "healthy and responsible" to imagine that in the near future the movement "will not be necessary." They have stressed that it is not appropriate to "perpetuate" it; on thecontrary, "we must think that the end of the Network, if things are done well, will be a collective and discreet victory , as the most important victories are usually. "

With regard to the mobilizations, they have called for 'maximum collective effort' in the demonstration of 2027, so that 'the demonstration of January 2027 will mean that the majorityofBasque society wants to move forward. The goal, all home! — that will be the motto. — Our aim is for the demonstration to represent the end of a whole journey of social mobilization in defence of the rights of Basque prisoners.

In addition to looking forward, in order to "defend human rights and the dignity of all victims," Iturbe and Azkarraga have also valued the path taken over the past 12 years. In the early years, they focused ondenouncing the "unjust and cruel" policy of dispersal applied to ETA prisoners, and they have remembered the victims of this distancing dynamic: since 2014, 16 people have died on the road, more than 30 prisoners have died in prisons, and the suffering of "children with backpacks."

According to their data, in 2014 there were 465 prisoners dispersed in more than 50 prisons in the Spanish and French states, and more than 100 villages in the Basque Country had some ETA prisoner. 

In recent years, especially since theend of the policy of removal 23, it has been determined that "the scenario is different". There are about 120 inmates, of whom about 70% are in third grade or have Article 100.2. The number of villages with any inmates in this group has been reduced to 35. On the other hand, there are still 40 people without grade progression, but that is expected to change this year.