20 June 2025.

• Mariola Guevara has presided over a commemorative act that has been institutionalized annually since this year

• “Today we pay a moral and existential debt and rescue these heroes from statistical ostracism to give them the deserved tribute,” he said in his speech.

• The Day of the Victims of Terrorism in the National Police aims to show recognition and gratitude, as well as to preserve and keep alive the memory of the victims of terrorism in the National Police

20 June 2025. The delegate of the Government has claimed the memory of the nine national police officers of the Region of Murcia who died as a result of terrorist acts in an act of tribute to which about twenty relatives of the victims have attended and which has presided together with the Superior Chief, Ignacio del Olmo.

“Today we pay a moral and existential debt and we rescue these heroes from statistical ostracism to give them the deserved tribute,” said Mariola Guevara during her speech, in which she explained that the celebration of Victims of Terrorism Day in the National Police is intended to show recognition and gratitude, as well as to preserve and keep alive the memory of the victims of terrorism in the National Police.

“To prevent proper remembrance and just memory from further receding, I welcome the fact that the National Police have institutionalized this day of exciting remembrance. Thus, every June 16, the date on which ETA murdered Chief Inspector María José García Sánchez in Zarauz in 1981, we will pay tribute as a show of respect and solidarity, so that, as the office of the Police says, its memory is perpetuated within the police institution and in the rest of society in accordance with the principles of memory, dignity, justice and truth,” he said.

During the event, a video was screened with the image of the 188 national police officers killed between 1968 and 2015 throughout Spain, a figure to which must be added the dozens of wounded police and shattered families who suffered terrorism in the first person.

The government delegate described her speech today as the most emotional one she has done since she took office. “Fundamentally, because today, the ideas, principles, values, motivations and personal circumstances that lead one to carry out a public responsibility such as mine, are confronted, in the most exciting and affectionate sense possible, with the memory of those heroes whose dignity, sacrifice, patriotism and love for a cause facilitated my performance and paved the comfortable path of freedoms that we travel today thanks to those who gave their lives in exchange for ours. Of those who died so that others can live,” he justified.

Guevara added that it is the familiarity of such our surnames that truly moves and resides how close we were to that drama that we perceive so far away today, in reference to the nine agents killed, and has celebrated that the National Police has institutionalized this day of exciting remembrance. “One day”, he concluded by addressing the relatives, “which is and will always be your day”, he concluded.