8th Press Notification (2003-06-18) 3rd day of resistance in Itoitz

Things are going on in a similar way to the previous day, at 12 at night the group of mediators our collective had designed, who were spending the night at the cross-road near Itoitz were thrown out from the spot once again, but this time to a place further than 500 metres from the village. Throughout the night all the police forces kept continuously driving round controlling the village.
The village has been besieged and surrounded by a plastic band, making it impossible for anyone to approach the houses people have been resisting in for three days.
The group of mediators tried to approach again and have been thrown out once more. This time they have had to stay in spot further than two kilometres from the village, from where they can't a thing and are permanently controlled. So we could now say our mediators' work has been totally disallowed. The reason to keep them way can't be any other but to prevent anyone from seeing what's going on in the village as the police carry out their work carelessly. The Navarran Police making use of a pneumatic hammer has been trying to make a hole in one of the walls of the bunker. The people inside the bunker seeing how recklessly the police were acting and fearing for their lives asked for the firemen brigade to take part in the eviction even though they feel strong enough both physical and mentally to carry on inside for a good more few days.
To explain everything that had happened on the previous days and fearing for the security of the people inside the bunker the collective called a press conference at 13,00 to send out an SOS to society.
Two of the people who had been hidden inside one of the houses decided to give up feeling their lives were in danger. They attended the press conference and denounced the police brutality and the methods the demolition company "Pérez del Río" is using, as they were demolishing walls without taking any care of the people hidden nearby. In the same press conference the mediators reported the helpless situations in which people in the bunker were in, and warned of the danger the eviction involves.
Practically at the same time the premises of the association Angiluerreka in Agoitz have been surrounded and people in the square nearby asked for identification.
Meanwhile, a neighbour of Itoitz is found by the police in his hiding place. After being brutally arrested by a large number of policemen is taken to the navarran police's headquarters. Even though this arrest has been confirmed some of the policemen in command denied it had happened.
The collective Solidari@s con Itoitz called for a noisy protest (people banging pots and thing to make noise) today at 8 pm.