The State Coordinator of Support for the Argentine Complaint against Crimes of Fascism (Ceaqua) has filed two new complaints in Galician courts of crimes against humanity during the Francoism. The complaints are due to the torture suffered by Xosé María Brañas and Manuel Reboiras in 1975 and 1976, respectively.
These complaints, filed in the Investigative Courts of A Coruña and Vigo, are added to the more than one hundred presented in Spain by people who demand the investigation and prosecution of crimes against humanity committed by the Franco dictatorship.
Brañas Pérez a complaint is filed against seven agents who are members of the Regional Brigade of Social Research of the Higher Police Headquarters of To Coruña. Also against the Local Social Investigation Section attached to the Lugo General Police Station on the occasion of his arrest on August 11, 1975 in Guntín, in 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 in Monte del Castro, in 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. He assures that both were detained for political reasons.
He has highlighted that, despite the fact that this type of crimes They cannot be amnestied nor do they prescribe and that by international law the States must investigate them, the courts They have chosen to archive it. For this reason, he has called for “political will to change the current model of impunity” 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 said that the psychologists who treated them have found in both him and Brañas “traces” of the “torture and mistreatment” they suffered. In his case, the trace “is impossible to overcome.” ” because his brother Moncho “was murdered in Ferrol in 1975”.
Reboiras has detailed thatand demand “recognition” of the “repression” during the 40 years of Franco’s regime 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, has considered “very important” to “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 wonderful.”
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