live now to sonya gallegos. gather it's been fairly noisy, but everything looks quite calm right now. >> reporter: indeed. in fact, the protesters coming out in that show of support of peace of human rights requested by the basqe patriots an partiee showed up for the demonstration. this was a demonstration that was supposed to be support. but that was banned after the party called for a different show of demonstration they didn't count on as many people turning out, in fact, they lined the area of bilbao and inundated people there. this is a reflection of the strong feelings building up here in the past week. the government has launched an operation to do what it calls crackdown on the remaining tentacles of the support netwo network. various lawyers were arrested. lawyers representing prisoners and their offices were raided. the spanish government is determined to try to get eta to disban, and this type of tactic had a negative reaction in the region. eta has renounced violent tactics in the past , and perhas t