ABSTRACT
The terrorism practice in the Basque Country can only be explained if we consider the level of support, whether expressed or implied, on the elimination of political dissident. Expressions of complicity (‘something be done’), fear (‘about policy doesn’t speak’) and incitement to crime (‘ETA, kill them’) reproduced the criminal logic of 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship. The victims were changing: first, the murder of policemen, military and ‘informers’, and second, gradually killing politicians of non-nationalist parties, trying by this means to scare Basque society. The role of ETA in opposition against Franco facilitated their social comprehension, especially in the 1980s when the vigilantism organisation GAL was created to fight ETA. The ephemeral existence of this terrorist organisation, without public support, has led to the emergence of a decidedly confusing narrative that seeks to blur the memory of the victims of terrorism within a war story which confuses perpetrators with victims.
