Deportation as a prison.

The traditional prison has walls and deportation keeps them high. The effects of the uprooting on the expelled person are notorious. As though he or she was in prison, the deported person was as marginated as it was possibly made and the situation was the consequence of a cristal clear repressive intention.

More than sixty refugees dispersed in different countries.

The first practical effects of the activities of the GAL, which starting activities in 1983, and of the agreements Madrid-Paris, did not take longer to reach us. The Christmas holidays of the President Miterrand in 1983 were used to call to his residenec in Latché, to Jean Pierre Destrade , socialist member of the French parliament and to the Secretary of State for Security, Joseph Francheski. The outcome of this meeting was the beginning of the deportations and extradictions of Basque refugees and the absolute silence of Destrade. The member of the French parliament Destrade just happened to change from a public sensitivity as regards the respect of the rights of the community of Basque refugees and the denouncement that the GAL "was something organised by the Spanish police", to this cruel silence.