Egin

Egin which means " faire" in Basque was a Basque newspaper of general information, of ideology of left Abertzale, mainly in language Spanish E, with parts out of Basque. It was published in Hernani in the Guipúzcoa by Orain S.A, company which directed also the transmitting station of radio Egin Irratia .

At the dawn of July 14th, 1998, the judge Baltasar Garzón ordered the preventive closing of the two media, and the arrest of several persons in charge of Orain SA, which were accused of integration in armed band. Tens of people are stopped. In his instruction, the judge considered that the company was subjected to the organization forces Euskadi your Askatasuna (ETA).

The day of the closing of Egin the president of the Spanish government Jose María Aznar was in official visit in Turkey. When in a press conference a journalist asked him for his opinion on what had occurred, this one was its answer: ¿ Creían ustedes that No our íbamos has atrever? " You believe that we were not going to dare? ".

The closing of Egin caused various protests, inter alia the radical left abertzale with the countryside with the slogan Hitz Egin (" Parle"), title also of a song of the Basque rock group Negu Gorriak.

After more than one year, and the end of the instruction, National Hearing reduced the charge to collaboration with armed band, which made unjustified closing. For, Orain S.A, it was already in bankruptcy, and the market share of Egin had been taken again by the daily newspaper Gara. Neither the newspaper, nor the radio were restarted again.

The instruction is still in hand in 2006, without the defendants being condemned nor compensated.

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To uncover Garzón. Articles against Garzón recompilés by Basque gauchists (2001).
File 18/98 and criminalisation of the left abertzale

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