The Generalitat delivers 107 documents that annul Franco's sentences

The Minister of Justice, Rights and Memory, Gemma Ubasart, delivered this Saturday 107 legal reparation documents that annul Franco's sentences to the families of many other residents of the Barcelona towns of Abrera and Centelles who were retaliated against after the Civil War.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
19 November 2022 Saturday 09:32
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The Generalitat delivers 107 documents that annul Franco's sentences

The Minister of Justice, Rights and Memory, Gemma Ubasart, delivered this Saturday 107 legal reparation documents that annul Franco's sentences to the families of many other residents of the Barcelona towns of Abrera and Centelles who were retaliated against after the Civil War.

Ubasart has presided over the delivery of these documents, which certify the nullity of the sentences or resolutions of the cases investigated by the Francoist courts and the courts-martial to which the victims were subjected, sentenced to prison terms or executed after a trial summary

Twenty of these documents have been delivered in an act in Abrera, since they correspond to repressed residents of that town, and the other 87 from Centelles, 15 of them belonging to victims of Balenyà.

In the words of the minister, the documents delivered today "send three very clear messages: first, that your relatives were not guilty of anything. Second, that the Francoist trials were a farce. And third, that the Government recognizes and honors the memory of the victims of Francoism as a democratic duty".

Between 2017 and the end of September 2020, the Department of Justice, Rights and Memory has received a total of 6,630 requests for annulment of trials or court martial from Francoist courts for political reasons.

The Ministry launched this service on September 12, 2017 after Parliament unanimously approved the legal reparation law for victims of Francoism, with the aim of "claiming the right to truth, justice, recognition and reparation for the victims of the dictatorship and their families".

The law declares illegal the Francoist war tribunals that acted between April 1938 and December 1978 because they violated the right to a fair trial, and consequently annuls all the sentences and resolutions of the cases investigated for political reasons.

According to data from the National Archive of Catalonia, more than 66,000 military legal proceedings for political reasons were carried out in the community during the Franco regime.