Navarra has approved the first recognitions of victims of politically motivated acts caused by far-right groups or public officials. Among the people officially recognized as victims are Mikel Arregui and Mikel Zabalza.
In addition to official recognition, families will also be able to receive health care, financial compensation for physical and/or psychological and material damages. These financial compensations are calculated according to tables established by law and are equal to that received, for example, by victims of ETA terrorism. To make them effective, an economic item has been included in the General Budget of Navarra for 2024. The official version of the Civil Guard is that he escaped by jumping into the Bidasoa River when he was arrested on November 26, 1985 in Donosti along with his cousin and two other people. The next day, it was reported that Mikel Zabalza had disappeared. He is believed to have been killed in a car crash in the town of Orbaiceta. Mikel Arregui, a native of Lakuntza, where he worked as a councilor, was traveling in a vehicle with four other friends. In the early morning of November 11, 1979, near Etxarri Aranatz, the Civil Guard shot at the vehicle. Arregi, 32, was shot to death. The commission has officially recognized Arregui as a politically motivated victim, considering that the events were within the determined time frame, that public officials intervened, and that the damage occurred in Navarrese territory and against a person from the area. For all this, they granted the family compensation of 238,000 euros. The legal text was appealed by the central government before the Constitutional Court, which ended up declaring the conformity of the regional norm with the Magna Carta (rulings 108/2021, of May 13 and 135/20 21, of June 24). What affects the most is what happens closest. So you don't miss anything, subscribe.