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Organized by the Municipality of Alhama de Murcia, this morning has been a tribute to Miguel Angel Blanco in the fifteenth anniversary of his assassination.
The ceremony took place on the streets of Alhama de Murcia that bears his name.
In a roundabout end of the street, the mayor of Alhama de Murcia, Fernando Alfonso Morales Ceron, together with the Councillor for Sports, Loli Canovas, has planted a palm tree, starting today, is the living memory of Miguel Angel Blanco.
Planted a palm tree, has given way to a moment of silence followed the reading of a manifesto, which included the reading of a text submitted by Miguel Angel Blanco Foundation at the request of the City.
This was the manifesto read by the Councillor for Social Welfare, Mary Carmen Day:
"MANIFEST IN THE XV ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF MICHELANGELO WHITE
Today, on the fifteenth anniversary of the murder of Miguel Angel Blanco, we join the other municipalities in Spain to recover the spirit of Ermua.
In 1997 he was murdered in cold blood by the terrorist group ETA Miguel Angel Blanco, deaf to the cry of the Spanish democratic took to the streets spontaneously, showing his white hands and asking for peace ..., demanding peace.
Today, we again condemn the terrorist attacks and violence in all its extension.
Today, we return to claim peace as indispensable basis for a democratic society, where they can settle the fundamental principles for living together in equality, prosperity and growth.
We can not allow the violence that creates fear and terror.
XXI century man must be a man of speech, gestures and dialogue, away from barbarism, aggression and repression.
We want peace, we demand peace and for that you need the laying down of arms and legitimacy only and exclusively on those who actually opt for democracy.
For Miguel Angel Blanco is present among us in the most direct way possible and now known as "Spirit of Ermua" re-emerge among all alhameños, we contacted the Foundation Miguel Angel Blanco, who has written a letter, which I read as the end of this show:
"For 15 years the terrorist band ETA kidnapped and killed Miguel Angel Blanco, a 29 years. Six million Spanish people took to the streets in an attempt to save his life demanding that ETA would not kill him. The streets of Spain filled with people of all ideologies united in common cause against terrorist brutality. In those days cried "Enough, we want peace", "No guns are nothing", a sense of solidarity with the pain of an innocent family and social awareness. Together we ask, we demand that applied the rule of law, not negotiate with terrorists, which dignify all victims. Miguel Angel Blanco has become a symbol of freedom and democracy, permanent memory all victims of terrorism Spanish.
To remind Miguel Angel Blanco and all victims of terrorism and we meet here today we reaffirm that commitment to peace and we do not forget that the victims of terrorism should be an ethical and social for all good citizens.
Serve this act to settle the memory of Miguel Angel Blanco and all victims of terrorism, this event serves to establish our own memory "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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