Benidorm has observed this noon five minutes of silence in memory of the councilman of the PP of Ermuna (Vizcaya), kidnapped and murdered by ETA terrorist band 20 years ago today. The mayor, Toni Pérez, has led a gathering attended by representatives of the municipal groups, which has also assisted the autonomic deputy Manuel Pérez Fenoll. Among those attending, members of the State Security Corps and Forces, associationism, officials, trade union delegates and citizens in their personal capacity have demonstrated with their presence the most absolute rejection of violence, terrorism and support for freedom and democracy.
"Today Miguel Angel Blanco has been remembered," said Toni Pérez, and with him all those who were victims of the terror of ETA, installed in the unreason, has provoked the most painful moments of this nation that is Spain. Of those days, Pérez recalled that "we were a whole country, all from Spain who lived these moments of anguish, since their abduction, torture and finally vile murder by these ETA members, some of whom today enjoy freedom."
Today's concentration has been "a cry of silence", pointed out the mayor, the "enough this" of a people that "never failed to meet the demands of the terrorist band." A town that keeps alive in its memory the figure of Miguel Angel Blanco and the "point of inflection" that supposed his murder, after which some "stopped looking for justification to the attacks and understood that this was a thing of all and had to separate those who did not understand what values were, nor the principles of a rule of law that guaranteed freedom for all. "