German Rodriguez gogoan zaitugu

As every 8 of July, the platfom "SANFERMINES 78 Gogoan" celebrated at noon tribute to German Rodriguez, killed by police a day like this 37 years ago yesterday. First All these long years, the tribute was attended by mayor of Pamplona, Joseba Asiron.We return to the documentary Juan Gautier and José Ángel Jiménez, released by the 25th anniversary to approach these days without falling into the confusion of memories. Armed police commander Fernando Avila promised to give a lesson to this city because "it was very rebellious" when asked for by his partner Joaquin Imaz, assassinated by gunmen last year in the parking lot of Plaza bullring.

Imaz death was attributed to Eta, although it was never clarified. That was the commander of blood Navarre cultivated convinced people would not have ordered the police savagery.

Navarra and Basque were one of the most difficult dilemmas Spanish Transition. The cake was baked autonomous. The Basque national movement saw the opportunity to build a Basque Navarre. The state apparatus and foralista fought this idea because it could lead to the fracture of Spain. The calendars of the year 77 and 78 of the first six months were marked by labor protests, actions of the extreme right, the attacks of Eta, the shooting death of two demonstrators in favor of amnesty ...
'San Fermin' with gray instead of Miura

On the afternoon of July 5, the eve of 'txupinazo' 50 Ermitagaña school students who came back from study trip to Granada we stepped on the platform station Pamplona aware of the little festive atmosphere. There was a general feeling in many parts of Spain that something serious would happen. Why? The accumulation of events seemed to lead us to a society divided into a hurricane unstoppable at the end. Pamplona as a scenario that society dash nausea Franco. We were the 3rd D.

'El Jueves', the magazine Zeta group then headed by José Luis Erviti, published a week before a double page with 'running of the bulls' San Fermin where gray replaced the Miura. A copy of El Pais that he bought in the Chamartin Station drawing teacher, Don Emilio, we read, signed by Fermín Goñi, who had barricaded themselves in the city council about detained relatives participating in a street fight Chapitela ended with the death of a guerrilla Cristo Rey turned out to be a policeman. That same afternoon, the extremists occupied the Casco Viejo armed with chains and baseball bats. Something had to happen to San Fermin. And yes, look what happened.
Machine guns at the bullring

At least 200 armed policemen guarding the bullring bullfight during the 8-J, led by Commissioner Miguel Rubio. Unusual. Forty of them were loaded against Sol hundred spectators who walk through the arena banner with the slogan 'Amnesty presoak Total Kaler San Fermin sin prisoners', presumably to avoid fights with those from the stands rebuked the the arena. The cry of "¡San Fermin, San Fermin!" the mood was calm. Suddenly, 40 more gray stormed the square after the children of supporters and they engage in shots. The confrontation continued in the street. At 22:15 pm, after a burst of machine gun, fell seriously wounded Germán Rodríguez. The battle broke out in the attempt to storm the Civil Government lasted until dawn. Who gave the orders? Does Commissioner Rubio? Does the commander Avila? The recorded voice of this is giving order to shoot to kill.

The revolt against the police swept the streets to the hospital in Navarre, on the outskirts of Pamplona. At seven in the morning, still got people carrying wounded. Tension gripped emergency. In an operating room looked saving Germán Rodríguez --amb cerebral-- death, "had to fight for that boy so young," he told me years later that one of the doctors call memorable. In the corridor was Fernando's brother Germán doctor Virgen del Camino. Still resonate in the memory screams, threats from relatives of the wounded (demonstrators, police, guerrillas). "The civil war had to be something like," explained. Suspended 'San Fermin' --del the red scarf crepe negre--, protests followed by Navarre and the Basque Country with another death shot by police in San Sebastian.

Then silence. Transition to Navarre. Forgetting synonym murderer of forgiveness.

Germán Rodríguez agricultural expert would have been happy. Military Revolutionary Communist League (LKI). He had a flawless profile so that neither 'derechona' dared to include in the group of 'nationalist' radicals holding the official July bleeding. The sculpture reminded that the monument disappeared by the 'encierro'. A local campaign was to restore his memory with a new monolith. How many died in that time, remember family and friends. Still waiting for Spanish democracy clarify the murders of Transition. Case