The dismissal of Unai Etxebarria by Granada reaches Congress

The flames of the bonfire lit on social networks are still very much alive when it was known yesterday that the Granada CF had terminated the goalkeeper's contract Unai Etxebarria after having opened a file for the display of a T-shirt in support of the eight young men convicted of Altsasu. There are signs of support both in favor of the Biscayan footballer, formed in the Athletic quarry, and the Nasrid club for the decision taken. The snowball has grown so large that the matter has reached the Congress of Deputies. Has been the Basque group of the EAJ-PNV who, through the deputy for Gipuzkoa Iñigo Barandiaran, has addressed a series of questions to the Government of Spain in relation to the dismissal of Etxebarria.

In his writing to the Bureau of Congress, Barandiaran it labels as “unacceptable” that “a professional can be fired from his activity as a result of exercising freedom of expression, all the more so if it is a matter as controversial as it is incomprehensible.” The nationalist deputy understands that “if discrimination for ideological reasons is confirmed in said approach, it would resurrect past schemes that catalog Basque citizens based on their more or less public manifestations”, which in the opinion of Barandiaran “It is a serious violation of rights, both in the labor and civil order.”

The representative of Basque group concludes his letter with three questions for the Government he presides Pedro Sanchez: “Does the Government believe that dismissals such as the one reported are compatible with labor legislation? Does the Government think that through its agents – labor inspection – it should monitor actions such as the one indicated? Does the Government admit that, in the exercise of freedom of expression, there is room for disagreement with judicial or governmental decisions, without those who exercise it having to fear for their rights as a result?

It has not been the only demonstration that, from the world of politics, has come to support the Biscayan goalkeeper. Thus, the spokesperson for the Parliamentary Group of EH Bildu in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, linked the news with a brief comment: “This Spanish State in which Freedom of expression and other rights are always for others.” Your party partner Arkaitz Rodriguez, deputy in the Basque ParliamentHe expressed himself in this way through Twitter: “Shameful! Solidarity and all the support to Unai
Etxebarria. The greatest contempt for the old-new Spanish inquisitors ”.

He too CD Getxo, in which he was active Unai Etxebarria before starting his stage in the quarry of the Athletic, wanted to support the goalkeeper: “We want to show our former player @ 13unairi our total solidarity in the face of the injustice he is experiencing.”