Sumar has registered an initiative in Congress with the intention that the Chamber urge the Executive to create a Memory and Documentation Space against torture and Franco’s repression at the National Police station located in Via Laietana in Barcelona.
The initiative has been promoted by the deputies of En Comú Aina Vidal and Gerardo Pisarello and also seeks to ensure that in this center of democratic memory all documentation relating to police files, political repression and torture is exposed carried out in the building that now houses the Higher Police Headquarters of Catalonia.
On October 10, within the framework of the General Policy Debate, the Parliament, with the support of the PSC, approved a resolution also promoted by En Comú, urging the Government of Savior Illa to negotiate with the central office the conversion of the Police Headquarters into a space of memory of Franco’s repression. Together voted against.
A week later, in response to the PP’s accusations against Illa accusing him of wanting to expel the Police from those offices, the president of the Generalitat assured that It is not about “expelling anyone” but rather about honoring the people who were tortured there.
In the text presented at the Congress, to which Europa Press has had access, Sumar mentions the request of memorial associations that have been demanding for years that the agents be relocated to other units who serve at the Vía Layetana police station, a claim that the Ministry of the Interior has always rejected.
The confederal group highlights that The Democratic Memory Law emphasizes the need to gather, recover, integrate and disseminate the original documentary and bibliographic funds and other assets of the General State Administration of the period between the Civil War and the approval of the Constitution.
The objective is that all this material can be made available to people who want to consult it, whether they are in the field of research or ordinary citizens, through museum, archival or pedagogical activities to publicize recent Spanish history.
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