TV GALICIA REPORTER (voice- over): The Basque country has seen an increase of</s>MANUEL CHAVES, BUS DRIVER (through translator): It's sad that, in this country, we workers must do our jobs with a police beside us. If there is no other way to do, we will have to do it like that. What's obvious is that we cannot go out into the street unprotected, because at any moment, those fanatics may come and attack us.</s>PAREDO: But these youngsters don't only attack buses. They also attack banks, government buildings, houses where politicians live, and even people who criticize their violence to the point where those people have to move. The rest of this case is world Professor Mikala Fimendi (ph), who has been threatened on repeated occasions and who has decided to go and work for a year in a university of the United States. According to the sociologist, Javier Lezo, 50 percent of these youngsters approve of street violence and 9 percent would be prepared to kill for their separatist ideas. Also, the truth of the matter is that, at the moment, there are no more than about 500 young people who take part in the violence. Political reasons are not the only explanation for street violence.</s>JAVIER LEZO, SOCIOLOGIST (through translator): Many of them have problems with a family or at school or within society, because of unemployment.</s>PAREDO: This situation of juvenile violence, which can be mixed up with terrorism is worsened by the passivity of the autonomous police, which has been repeatedly denounced. The police favor the impunity and the insolence of many of these youngsters, who vindicate terrorism in public even without suffering any consequence whatever. Jose Antonio Garcia Paredo, TV Galicia for CNN WORLD REPORT.
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