Over the past fifty years, ETA has left its stamp of terror on the society of Navarra: responsible for killing 42 people, kidnappings, hundreds of terrorist attacks, extortion, jeopardising political life, instilling fear and in short, damaging the society that it claimed to defend through arms. After the terrorist group announced its definitive end to violence, and despite not having been dissolved, the time has come to tell what has happened over the past half century. Closing this ominous era implies recording the terror. Although there is no turning back for
the killings, History will make us better if it is written with honesty. This is the aim of Relatos de Plomo, a two-volume work that extensively records the history of terrorism in the Autonomous Community of Navarre. To do so, it includes chronicles of all the major terrorist attacks, both the fatal and non-fatal, and interviews with relatives of the victims and the seriously injured, whereby for many, it is the first time that they give their testimony. The first volume, which was published in December, contains the account of events from 1960 to 1986.
The second volume will be released in 2014. The work is aimed at those interested in knowing what happened and to whom, and those who wish to delve into those torturous years to find out what Navarre that witnessed so much blood in the final years of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century was really like.
A trap in the trunk
Gobierno de Navarra