The State Coordinator of Support for the Argentine Complaint against Crimes of Fascism (Ceaqua) has presented two new complaints in Galician courts of crimes against humanity due to torture suffered by Xosé María Brañas and Manuel Reboiras during the Franco regime, in 1975 and 1976, respectively.
These complaints, filed this Thursday in the Investigative Courts of A Coruña and Vigo, The more than 100 presented in Spain are added by people who demand the investigation and prosecution of crimes against humanity committed by the Franco dictatorship.
Brañas Pérez files a complaint against seven agents who are members of the Regional Social Investigation Brigade of the Higher Police Headquarters of A Coruña and the Local Social Investigation Section attached to the Police Station of the General Police Corps of Lugo. on the occasion of his arrest on August 11, 1975 in Guntín (Lugo).
Manuel Reboiras has filed a complaint against nine agents of the Local Social Investigation Section of the Vigo General Police Station. for his arrest on June 18, 1976 on the Castro mountain (Vigo).
As explained at the headquarters of the Republican Assembly of Vigo, Ceaqua’s lawyer, Irene Álvarez, explained that the two complainants They were militants of Unión do Pobo Galego and were detained for political reasons.
He has assured that, although these types of crimes cannot be amnestied nor do they have a statute of limitations and that under international law, States must investigate them, the courts have chosen for your file.
For this reason, he has claimed “political will to change the impunity model” current and has urged the courts of A Coruña and Vigo to initiate proceedings.
For his part, Reboiras has warned of this “lack of political will to investigate crimes and torture of the Franco regime” because, after “half a century of democracy, the executioners remain uninvestigated.”
He has said that the psychologists who treated them have found both in him and in Brañas “traces” of those “torture and ill-treatment” they suffered. In his case, the mark “is impossible to overcome” because his brother Moncho “was murdered in Ferrol in 1975.”
Reboiras has detailed that They demand “recognition” of the “repression” during the 40 years of Franco’s rule to “heal the wound” that that regime caused and so that “these actions are never repeated again.”
Brañas, who has recounted the torture he suffered at the hands of the police, considered it “very important” that “we know what happened” at that time. now that “the law of democratic memory is boycotted in certain autonomous communities” and there are “very young” people who see the Franco regime “as a marvel.”
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