The charge against María Concepción Edo joins three other complaints for crimes against humanity filed in other courts, as explained by the state coordinator for support of the Argentine complaint.
The State Coordinator of Support for the Argentine Complaint (CEAQUA) has reported four new lawsuits filed against agents of the state forces and organs during the Franco regime, including that of Maria Concepcion Edo Gil, presented in the courts of Pamplona. She was tortured after being arrested in 1973 for distributing leaflets for a trade union.
jacinto laraof the CEAQUA legal team, highlighted “the courage and bravery” of the people who decided to take criminal action “in a impunity framework“since the constitution was approved in 1978. He regrets that in more than 40 years the state has refused to prosecute these crimes, and has pointed out that the new law of democratic memory opens an opportunity to finally investigate these crimes.
Previously, another 80 complaints were inadmissible for treatment, hidden behind the amnesty law. According to Lara, now is a good time to promote these criminal complaints. Lara recalled that in the “minimum” content of the democratic remembrance law, the parliamentary groups stated “that the framework of impunity was coming to an end”. “Let’s see if it’s fulfilled,” he said.
Amnesty International’s spokesman, for his part, Daniel Canalesexplained that he hopes that these new complaints will be an opportunity to respond to those who have been victims of reprisals in accordance with international law, as opposed to the usual, protected by the amnesty law.
“Amnesty is incompatible with the study of torture,” he insisted, adding that “this wall of decades must be broken down because pain is not cured with silence and oblivion, but with justice,” he said.
Regarding the complaint filed with the courts of Pamplona, María Concepción Edo recalled that she suffered torture and degrading treatment in June 1973, at the age of 19, after launching many from the Telefónica building union handouts.
As he has related, when he came home he found people there, and suddenly found himself rolling down the stairs. Back at the police station, without the assistance of the doctors, they called her a “bitch, slut and whore” and beat her “from head to toe” between several police officers, mercilessly beating her stomach and lower abdomen.
She came out scarred for life, with a dislocated uterus, several misplaced vertebrae, and chronic injuries. After a month in the hospital, he was diagnosed with polyarthrosis from the beatings. He also remembers the poor conditions in the prisons he passed through.
Edo has decided to file the complaint because he deems it necessary to “uncover and investigate the suffering of so many prisoners”, and has called on the women and men who have suffered reprisals to join them to close. “I hope it is a small grain of sand so that those who tortured are convicted,” he said. His complaint contains the names of Jose Blanco Martin And Jose Bernardo Barbara Martinpolice officers.
In addition, three other lawsuits have been filed, including one with the retired commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo.
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