We discussed years ago, in the editorial office, after the attacks on the Twin Towers, whether it was ethical, journalistically speaking, to do Osama bin Laden an interview. We conclude that everyone has an interview. When Jordi Évole presented in San Sebastián his interview with Josu Urritikoetxea ‘Don’t call me Beef’, some accused him, without having seen her, of laundering terrorists.
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Now Netflix has just uploaded it. Does not act Évole, in my opinion, like a bleach. The problem with this conversation is that it serves no purpose at all. It’s useless. What this ex-ETA member, now awaiting another trial for the attack on the Zaragoza barracks house – 11 people dead, including five girls – said was in summary: «A trophy has been made with me. They have dehumanized my figure (..) Killing is not a pleasure for anyone (..) It would be bad, after fighting for 50 years, to say that it has not made sense (..) They are not murders, they are actions resulting from political decisions (..) .) I have done as a militant what I considered best. And period». That is, lead at the service of an idea that goes beyond lives. I am not a murderer, I act in the name of an ideology. Ah! We already know this metallic speech. He doesn’t have a single milligram of human. It is significant, and an example of neuronal structure, that what has bothered him most has not been the memory of the deaths that occurred but rather Évole said that they were in France and not in the «Northern Basque Country». That bothered him a lot.
The interesting thing about this document has been the brief preamble and epilogue, which has been given Évole to Francisco Ruiz Sanchezshot in Galdakao in 1976, and which Veal He has confessed that he participated, although ‘without pulling the trigger’. Francisco Ruiz He arrived in the Basque Country when he was a child. He worked as a plumber. He opted for a municipal guard position so he could have a steady salary. He accompanied the mayor the day the commando shot them down. Twelve bullets in his body. Miraculously he is still alive. He had to leave the Basque Country ‘like someone plagued’. «People changed sidewalks when they saw me. My wife heard the municipal guard say, ‘Screw him for accompanying a fascist.’ That rejection of me is what has hurt me the most.». This should have been the great interview, admired Jordi. The humanity of the victim. Not the story, full of lead, of the executioner.