«I wouldn't offer somebody who's been arrested a coffee», former Spanish Civil Guard Manuel Pastrana said ironically during an interview on Catalan TV3 station, making an open case for the use of torture.Former Civil Guard (Spanish special armed forces) Manuel Pastrana appeared on TV3's «Preguntes freqüents» ('Frequent Questions') programme and talked about torturing people believed to be members of ETA.
«I wouldn't offer somebody who's been arrested a coffee. You have to get [the information] out of them any way you can», he answered when asked if the use of torture is usual. He also underlined that «Basques are very weak». «They sing as soon as you touch them», he said.
It is the first time that a former policeman admits torturing Basque activists. «In Spain we're softer than some other countries», he stated. When the interviewer asked him if he regretted anything which he had done, he said that he did not: «I would do everything exactly the same way again.» / Ler mais: argia.eus
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SOBRE A DECLARAÇÃO «Os bascos são fracos; cantam mal se lhes toca», o muito que se pode já ver AQUI.
NA IMAGEM inferior: o corpo sem vida de Joxe Arregi, militante da ETA. Faleceu no Hospital Penitenciário de Carabanchel, em Madrid, no dia 13 de Fevereiro de 1981, depois de permanecer incomunicável nove dias e ser torturado por elementos da Polícia Nacional espanhola, durante esse período, na Direcção-Geral de Segurança, em Madrid.