The Argentine lawyer Ana Messuti He died yesterday, October 26, in a Madrid clinic. Specialist in Philosophy of Law from the University of Rome and PhD in Law from the University of Salamanca, Messuti was one of the lawyers who accompanied the victims of Francoism and was part of the legal team that filed the so-called Argentine complaint.
Defender of universal justice, Messuti had an important role in the exhumation of Timoteo Mendieta and he dedicated much of his retirement to fighting for reprisals and democratic memory. In an interview for Publicasserted that “considering crimes as serious as systematically practiced torture as prescribed reveals the will not to judge them.”
Messuti was optimistic. He firmly believed that the crimes of Franco’s regime could one day be tried in Spain. He got the brothers Julen and Luisa Kalzadachildren of a victim shot by Franco’s troops, will testify before a court in Guernica.
As an author, she published books such as Justice deconstructed (Bellaterra) or Law as Memory and Justice (Postmetropolis), where he defended that death should not free those who committed crimes against humanity from justice. “The victims still exist. Who gives them justice?” the author asked. at the presentation of his bookwhich he could witness Public.
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