Police offensive.
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.

At that time, more that sixty Basque refugees -men, women and children- were dispersed in different countries of Africa and America, a repressive act not seen in the european history since the Second World War. The forced deportation of the Basque, reminded many inhabitants of the Northern Basque Country (the part under the French administration) of a similar case in 1940, when after the German invassion, more that two thousand Basques were expelled from their own country and deported to different places. At that time, these measures were in force for a period of four years and more than 1.000 deportees never returned, they had just died.