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Representatives of the Municipal Corporation have saved this morning a minute of silence in the Plaza of Spain in memory of Ermua councilman kidnapped and murdered by ETA.

Plaza of Spain has welcomed this morning a ceremony in tribute to the councilman Miguel Angel Blanco Garrido, whose murder by ETA is now serving 18 years, in which participated representatives of the Municipal Corporation in the city of Lorca .

Spokesman of the government team, Fulgencio Gil, said at the conclusion of the minute of silence that has been saved as a sign of respect and remembrance at 12 noon, Michelangelo White symbolizes the heroism, dignity and suffering of the thousand victims that caused ETA in Spain.

Today's event must serve to anyone forget that victims of terrorism are still suffering and have to continue to feel the full support of all Spaniards.

Anti-terrorism bodies and state security forces, has come a long way.

The unity of the Democrats is the only effective formula to banish forever the terrorists and get to leave our children a Spain without violence.

The victory of democracy, good people of this country, going to achieve that ETA abandon their weapons and definitively dissolved.

Fulgencio Gil said that the heinous murder of Miguel Angel Blanco by ETA has marked the history of Spain, giving as a result the so-called spirit of Ermua and his manifesto, which managed to bring together public officials around the defense of the values ​​of democracy and rejection of ETA.

Politicians have an obligation to keep alive the memory of Michelangelo and anyone forget how much it cost to consolidate our rule of law against attacks from terrorists.

Miguel Angel Blanco was PP councilor in Ermua between 1995 and 1997. He was 29 years old when ETA kidnapped on July 10, 1997, blackmailing the government to kill him if not approached that organization prisoners to Basque jails.

48 hours later he appeared shot in the Basque town of Lasarte.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca