Likewise, it is the first time that a prosecutor from the Human Rights and Democratic Memory Unit of the Spanish Government, led by Dolores Delgado, has participated. Julio Pacheco has stated that he was subjected to corporal punishment by the police of the Political-Social Brigade in 1975.
‘To reach this point is to begin break the wall of silence and impunity that we have with the Franco regime.” So he spoke today Julio Pachecothe first complainant of torture during the Franco regime to testify in court in Spain.
The head of the Investigative Court Number 50 of Madrid, Ana María Iguácel, took statements this Friday from the complainant and a witness to the reported events, which consist of torture suffered in August 1975 at the Directorate General of Security. first statement before a Spanish court of a victim for this type of events, after more than a hundred complaints filed, and also the first time that a prosecutor from Democratic Memory attends a procedure, fiscal sources have confirmed.
This year, the Spanish government created the Office of the Prosecutor for Human Rights and Democratic Memory, provided for in the law of the same name and whose head since June has been the former Minister and former Attorney General of the State Dolores Delgado.
Several dozen people called by the organizations have gathered at the door of the court. Ceaqua, Amnesty International and Iridia, who showed their support for Pacheco by applauding him as he entered and left the judicial headquarters. Those present hung two large banners with the inscriptions “Let’s break the wall of impunity” or “The victims of the Franco regime demand justice. Application of human rights now.”
As he left, after an hour of testimony, Pacheco seemed pleased, stating that getting to this point “is already starting to break the wall of silence and impunity that we have with the Franco regime, and the first time a judge pays attention to you and hey,” so that “there can be more, and that somehow this can start and that we can finally get justice here in the Spanish state.”
At the time of his arrest, Julio Pacheco was a university student and member of the Communist Party, accused of participating in the murder of Guardia Civil Lieutenant Antonio Pose Rodríguez. According to his complaint, he was subjected to torture during three days of kidnapping by officers of the Political-Social Brigade, including former Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, so that he could incriminate himself.
Source: EITB
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