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On the 29th of January, the day the President of the Spanish Government, Adolfo Suarez, submitted his resignation, ETA-m kidnapped Jose Maria Ryan, head engineer of Lemoniz nuclear power station. His body was found on the 6th of February, the day set by the organisation for the demolition of the power station. Two days before, on the 4th of February, the King of Spain had been berated in his first visit to the Basque Country, coinciding with the arrest of Joxe Arregi Izagirre, a member of ETA-m's Madrid commando. On the 13th of February, he died in Carabanchel Prison Hospital as a consequence of the torture he had been subject to at the DGS (Directorate-General of Security). Ryan and Arregi's deaths gave rise to demonstrations and general strikes in protest all over the Basque Country.
These tense weeks culminated on the 23-F. Fear reappeared with the attempted coup d'etat and the main political agents quickly took action. But February did not end here. Later in the month, on the 28th, ETA-pm announced a truce which would be proclaimed definite a year later.
25 years later, the documentary HIL BELTZA remembers that black February, investigates the facts and seeks the testimony of the protagonists. In short, it regains the memory, asking why it happened and the consequences which derived from it.
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