Thank you for your sacrifice, Juan Manuel

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Thank you for your sacrifice, Juan Manuel
By h.b. - May 16, 2008 - 1:32 AM
ALSO SEE : • Two ETA prisoners due for release see their terms extended by ten years - Jun 11, 2008 - 6:47 PM
• Two Basque businesswomen arrested for making payments to ETA - Jun 11, 2008 - 7:41 AM

The scence outside the new Cathedral in Vitoria today - Photo EFE
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The funeral has taken place in Vitoria cathedral for the 41 year old Guardia Civil to lose his life in the latest ETA terrorist attack.
The van used by ETA to carry out the bomb attack against the Legutiano Civil Guard Barracks in the early hours of Wednesday had been stolen previously in France.
It was taken when the keys were left in the ignition by the owner in Limoges, and police think that the bomb was made and assembled in France. They see similarities in the case and that of the failed attack last September in Logroño.
Police say that they are now looking for a new ETA ‘car bomb factory’ in France.

The funeral has taken place for the victim of the Legutiano bomb. 41 year old Juan Manuel Piñuel Villalón, known as Manolo, was married and had a small son, with the family living in the El Palo area of Málaga. He had only been stationed in the Basque region for two months.

At the funeral in the new cathedral in Vitoria, the Prince and Princess of Asturias lead the mourners and the authorities, with the coffin held on the shoulders of eight of Manolo’s colleagues.
Behind, Maria Victoria, the widow, visibly upset and supported by several members of her family.

The Legutiano Civil Guard barracks were seriously damaged by the blast - Photo EFE
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The Government was represented by the Deputy Prime Minister, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega. Zapatero is in Peru for the Latin American summit. The opposition PP was represented by the party’s new spokesperson, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaria.

The silence of the funeral was broken by a member of the congregation who shouted out loud.
‘Juan Manuel. You have died for being Spanish in a land where being Spanish can cost you your life. Thank you for your sacrifice. Now others will pick up your baton’.

The Spanish said goodbye to the Civil Guard with applause and ¡Viva!s. The same cheers were heard after his body was being brought back to Málaga for burial yesterday evening.

Hundreds of Civil Guards formed a guard of honour for the cortege at its arrival at the Málaga cemetery, with the most emotional moment coming as a member of the force handed the Spanish flag which had been draped over the coffin to Juan Manuel’s widow.

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ALSO SEE :
• Two ETA prisoners due for release see their terms extended by ten years - Jun 11, 2008 - 6:47 PM
• Two Basque businesswomen arrested for making payments to ETA - Jun 11, 2008 - 7:41 AM
• Journalists demonstrate after ETA attack on the El Correo newspaper this weekend - Jun 9, 2008 - 6:37 AM
• Basque Mayor ordered to remove long-standing monument to ETA terrorist - Jun 2, 2008 - 6:13 PM
• Three slight injuries in ETA bomb explosion - Jun 1, 2008 - 9:36 AM
• Possible links between ETA and the FARC under investigation - May 31, 2008 - 10:12 AM
• Basque terrorists ETA dismiss the Ibarretxe referendum as a fraud - May 30, 2008 - 4:36 PM
• President of the Basque Government reveals his two first referendum questions - May 28, 2008 - 4:23 PM
• Spain announces more police to be used in the fight against terrorism - May 27, 2008 - 6:49 PM
• Ex Mayor of Andoain ordered to prison for collaborating with ETA - May 26, 2008 - 8:28 PM
• Arrested ETA activists appear in court in Paris - May 26, 2008 - 7:38 AM

Comments

patrick
15 May 2008, 20:24

Anyone who condemns the Monarchy in Spain should think twice before doing so in future not least because the King and Prince of Asturias are always among the first people to attack ETA for their cowardly outrages, which is as it should be but also they should think who would be in ultimate "charge" if the Monarchy were not here?
I can't understand how ANY civilised country expects to be able to hold legitimate talks with terrorist scum like ETA - just look what happened with Britain and the IRA? The more the British Government gave in to the IRA's demands, the more the IRA demanded? In the end there was nothing left for the IRA to demand because they had already got everything they had ever expected,wanted and more? This will happen if Spain and whoever is the Prime Minister starts negotiating AND will also mean that ALL the people who have sacrificed THEIR lives previously to this vile cesspit of humanity will have done so for nothing.
No ETA terrorist gets shot when being arrested because he or she is too gutless to resist arrest and only fire on people when they can surprise them and shoot them in the back but I think that this vermin should be hunted down like the rats they are under a shoot on sight/shoot to kill policy.

Henry Richards
16 May 2008, 00:21

Unfortunately Spaniards do not know there history. The current constitution is the 70th since 1812. Each, except the current, constitution was been associated with internal wars.

Since the beginning of the Franco era until now, their has been continuous peace. I am not defending Franco. I lived under Franco for 6 years working for a private company and subject what ever he dictated but there was piece and he prepared the current King to be head of the army and continue enforced piece.

Unlike Franco, the King now has to wait until the public is total tired of the bombings and killings. Then he will step in under the authority of the constitution that gives the army “responsibility for the integrity of the country” and do as Franco did.

Mean while many good people will die.

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