The ETA member who planned to kill Mayor Rita Barberá is on the Bildu list to be a councilor

Her name is Sara Majarenas, and she is one of the 44 former members of ETA who, according to the Covite victims' association, is running in the municipal elections for Bildu. In his case, there is the great paradox that he opts for the democratic path to access local power when, in his previous life, he tried to snatch this representation with the vilest of violence. He belonged to the “Levante command” of the armed band, the one that planned the assassination of the mayoress Rita Barberá.

Majarenas has been rehabilitated for political life as an aspiring councilor in the municipality of Astigarraga, Guipúzcoa. It is number 10 on the Bildu list. When he planned to kill Barberá, he was staying at the Tartessos pension in Valencia, a few meters from the Town Hall, as Las Provincias recalled this Thursday. Now he is targeting another consistory, but one he aspires to access as a full-fledged representative.

His profuse terrorist baggage has not been, far from it, an impediment to attend the elections. As Covite recalled, Majarenas was sentenced to 13 years and 10 months in prison for crimes of illicit association, falsification of official public documents and possession of weapons without a license.. She emphasizes that her record does not include blood crimes. He served a sentence in the Picassent prison (Valencia), where his life underwent a new tragic turn.

[Sara, a terrorist when ETA killed children, repentant when her ex stabbed her daughter]

As this newspaper reported, at 37, she became the first ETA member to leave the band to take care of a child. An unprecedented event in the more than five decades of ETA's life. Yes, the group Gema Belén Rodríguez de Miguel had done it before. Majarenas did it after her ex-partner, a Greek drug trafficker she met in prison, was about to stab her daughter to death.

In the case of Majarenas, regret only came when death haunted her little Izar, three years old.. He did not have the same vision when the bombs of his fellow terrorists killed 22 children. He was not moved by the sisters Esther and Miriam Barrera, who were the same age as his little girl when ETA killed them in 1987 with a bomb at the Civil Guard barracks in Zaragoza.

Nor did he lose his conscience that that other child, Luis Delgado, lost his life in Madrid. I was only two years old. He was taken away by another explosive bearing the seal of the ax and snake gang.. It happened in 1988. But his serious family situation was above his ideals.

In mid-January, his former partner, an ex-convict whom he met while both were serving sentences in the Picassent prison (Valencia), stabbed the daughter they had fathered twice behind bars.. It was during a weekend that the father, now free, spent with the baby.

Stylianos Messinezis, a 49-year-old Greek drug trafficker of Ethiopian origin, took the girl to his house in Benifaió (Valencia) and left her almost dead there.. He turned himself in to the cops and said that he had killed Izar.. But the little girl, seriously admitted to the La Fe hospital in Valencia, managed to save her life thanks to the intervention of doctors. The couple was in separation proceedings and both were fighting to gain custody.