The ultra-Catholic Christian Lawyers group filed a complaint before the Eibar Court of First Instance and Instruction for crimes against historical heritage, with “aggravated discrimination for religious reasons”, following the recent demolition of the cement cross located at the top of Mount Morkaiko, in the municipality of Elgoibar. This monument was dedicated to a member of the Bourbon family who supported the uprising against the Second Republic and died in combat during the civil war.
According to the complaint, on the night of November 17 to 18, a group of young people, “acting in a concerted and premeditated manner”, accessed the summit of the mountain equipped with rotaflex, a ladder and high-power searchlights, “causing the collapse of the large cross, amid shouts of celebration”.
At the foot of the monument, graffiti appeared with messages in Basque which “testify to a clear ideological and anti-religious motivation”, he adds, as reported by Europa Press.
Christian Lawyers assured that the Morkaiko cross was built at the end of the civil war and that it “lacks inscriptions” and clings to the fact that the PNV emphasized that the Guipuzcoa City Council itself defends that it is “an emblematic element of the landscape of Elgoibartarra and another symbol of the city” and not a Francoist icon.
The organization insists on the fact that “following the recommendations of the Basque Institute of Memory, it was decided to maintain it by integrating it into the Route of Memory”.
The president of Christian Lawyers, Poland Castellanos, assured that “demolishing a cross in the middle of the night, amid screams and graffiti, is an act of intolerable Christianophobia.” “We are not facing simple hooliganism, but rather an attack on the heritage and faith of thousands of Christians. We demand that those responsible be identified, convicted and that the cross be replaced in its place,” he stressed.
Christian Lawyers also requests that, in application of the Penal Code, the restoration of the Morkaiko cross be ordered by the perpetrators of the damage.
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