Documental de la Expo en el Memorial “Ausencias presentes. Desaparecidos por terrorismo en España”

This video accompanies the exhibition that addresses the issue of enforced disappearances due to terrorism, “ongoing crimes that do not expire as long as the bodies remain missing.” Currently, there are more missing persons in Spain than in Northern Ireland, where armed groups did collaborate in resolving similar cases. The video recounts the stories of Humberto Fouz Escobero, Fernando Quiroga Veiga, and Jorge García Carneiro, three Galician workers living in Irún, who crossed the border into France on the afternoon of March 24, 1973, to go to the cinema. That day, they encountered several ETA members in bars who, based on the young men's appearance and accents, mistook them for police officers. ETA was responsible for their kidnapping, torture, murder, and disappearance—to this day, one of the group's biggest secrets, as they have never acknowledged or denied the triple murder. Also remembered is Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe, alias Pertur, a leader of ETA-pm who was murdered and disappeared in 1976 by other members of the terrorist group for his advocacy of political participation over armed struggle; Publio Cordón Munilla, a businessman kidnapped in Zaragoza on June 27, 1995, and taken to Lyon by the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO). GRAPO demanded a large ransom, part of which his family paid, but Cordón was not released, according to his captors, because he had died in captivity. The exhibition also includes José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias Bakunin y Naparra, a member of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos (CAA), who disappeared at the age of 22 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on June 11, 1980.