The judge has thought that, because he was accredited the death of the first prisoner and that of the second “assumes”, this is a “cause of extinction of criminal responsibility, so it has agreed to the free dismissal of the cause and archive of the procedure.
Giza Eskubiden Beatakia has considered “despite everything” “Important precedent” The closure of the PNV ex -Militant case Txomin Letamendi And he has requested the Basque government to ask that it is being recognized in the context of the Basque law of historical and democratic memory.
On December 20, 2024, coincided with the 74th anniversary of his death, the children of Txomin Letamendi Murua presented the impulse of Beatakia A Complaint about torture To which he was subjected and that led him to death in 1950. The Hof van San Sebastián then admitted the family’s request and opened an investigation against the two who are reportedly responsible for the torture for Letamendi. To do this, he asked the provincial judicial police brigade to implement the correct procedures to identify both Francoist police.
In view of these identification procedures, the judge considered that, because he was accredited the death of the first prisoner and that of the second “assumes”, this is a “cause of extinction of criminal responsibility, in accordance with the provisions of Article 130.1.1º of the Criminal Code”, so that the law Free dismissal of the cause and the Actions Archives Commissioned by 5 March 2025.
“Important precedent”
They have considered it one milestone That the court “opened a crack in the denial bunker of the courts and opened the investigation into the death of the PNV Militant, Txomin Letamendi, initiated.
New steps
“Our dedication to the victims is to tour and exhaust all possible ways in their right to truth, justice and recovery. Consequently, in the search for the recognition and institutional recovery of both Txomin Letamendi and other victims of Francoisme and the repression of the state,” they have in a note. ” With this goal, on 7 April we ask the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, María Jesús San José. Administratively needed to be able to present the case of Letamendi Victim of Franco And continue to the act of timely recognition.
Source: EITB
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