CGT Libertarian Memory Commission
The day 18 September 2013 may go on to become a milestone date within the memorial movement. Finally the first arrest warrant is issued to torturers and assassins of the Franco regime. Right now, when the fascist upswing grows all over Europe, we find good news for the achievement of the real objectives, justice and reparation for the victims of the Franco regime.
CGT welcomes the performance of Judge Servini, first admitting a complaint from citizens massacred in another state and, right now, assuming the investigation of the denounced events and requesting the performance of necessary acts to clarify the crimes committed during the Franco period.
Moved by that desire to achieve reparation for the damages received by the abuses of the followers of fascio in Spain, the General Confederation of Labor and an important group of associations and individuals, They have appeared in the cause against Francoism in Argentina. As a result of the complaint filed before the Argentine judiciary, this arrest warrant for Juan Antonio González Pacheco has emerged, Jose Ignacio Giralte Gonzalez, Celso Galván Abascal and Jesús Muñecas Aguilar. All of them members of the repressive bodies of the old Franco dictatorial regime and who were cruel to their compañeros and compañeras, that following in the footsteps of those who already gave their lives during the civil war, they fought for freedom and to change society.
It is unquestionable that throughout this process,, as in fact it has already happened, pressure from the Spanish government to prevent justice from being done from Argentina. In Spain, it has already been possible to close the path of seeking justice for the victims of the Franco regime, disabling the performance of Judge Garzón as instructor of the process of reporting forced disappearances. And in recent months, a thousand obstacles have been put to the actions that the judge intended to carry out from Argentina to continue with the investigation of the complaint filed in Buenos Aires.
Even so, The requests for the imputation of another important number of Francoist personalities implicated in crimes against human rights remain pending resolution., as well as companies that benefited from the exploitation of Franco's prisoners to profit from the construction of large infrastructure works such as roads, reservoirs, irrigation canals such as the Canal del Bajo Guadalquivir (known as the Channel of the Prisoners) that members of the CGT of Andalusia have documented and presented before the Argentine judge requesting justice and reparation for those who suffered "slave labor".
With the wish that these arrests are only the beginning of the end of the impunity of the Franco regime, we toast for a day in which the objective of TRUTH is fulfilled., JUSTICE AND REPARATION with the victims of the Franco regime.
CGT LIBERTARIAN MEMORY COMMITTEE
PERMANENT SECRETARIAT CGT
Source: http://www.cgt.org.es
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