The Prosecutor’s Office The National Court will not respond to the request made by the association of victims of terrorism Dignity and Justice in relation to the documentary made by the journalist Jordi Évole about the former member of ETA Josu Urrutikoetxea, Josu Ternera, which is scheduled to be released in the 71st edition of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, which takes place from September 22 to 30. He believes that the right to freedom of expression “cannot be restricted by any type of prior censorship.”
In the decree in which it opens and at the same time archives an investigation procedure, the Public Ministry recalls that “the Spanish Constitution recognizes and protects, among others, the right to freely express and disseminate thoughts, ideas and opinions through word, writing or any other means of reproduction and the right to literary, artistic, scientific and technical production and creation”.
It adds that the exercise of these rights “cannot be restricted by any type of prior censorship” and the seizure of publications, recordings and other means of information may only be agreed upon by virtue of a judicial resolution.
In this way answers the lieutenant prosecutor of the National Court, Marta Durántez, to the request of the victims so that the Prosecutor’s Office visualize, prior to broadcast, a documentary that will be broadcast at the San Sebastián festival that includes an interview with the leader of ETA in case its content or the expressions expressed in it could constitute a crime of glorifying terrorism or humiliating its victims.
Prospective research
In his four-page decree, Durántez points out that what the victims’ association is asking for is a “prospective research based on the circumstances of the person interviewed”, and concludes that after examining the letter sent, “it is appropriate to issue a decree initiating and archiving these proceedings, for not be the facts reported constituting any criminal offense and not agree to the interested request to preview the interview”.
Don’t call me Veal will inaugurate the ‘Made in Spain’ section of the San Sebastián Festival, which includes 19 other outstanding Spanish feature films of the year. According to the producers, the film offers an exclusive interview of Évole with ‘Josu Ternera’, and provides a “hard and unprecedented look” to his career as leader of the terrorist organization ETA.
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This same Thursday it has emerged that associations of victims of terrorism and several unions of the Police and the Civil Guard have indicated that Josu Tenera “where he has to speak is before the National Court (AN) and not in a documentary.
Added to this is that the terrorist is attributed in the documentary directed by Jordi Évole his intervention in the murder in 1976 of the mayor of Galdakao Víctor Legorburua crime for which was never prosecuted and that was dismissed by the Amnesty Law of 1977, as published in the newspaper The mail.