Cannot Empty Trash Boot.efi and BootX

Hello guys
So today I got an external HD , and tryied time machine for the first time since i got my mac 8 months ago. After 3 hours or so i decided not to use it anymore :-/ and just backup the classic copy paste way. So i turned off the time machine clicked stop backing up and removed the backups from the external HD to the trash , my problem now is that the files boot.efi and bootX are locked , option key - empty trash won't help. What can i do to solve this and empty my trash from Boot.efi and BootX?
Thank you!
leonidas

Okey it is done i checked once again everything if i forgot something on from Time Machine ... restarted and then Alt-Empty and it was done
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