Justice is not just a beautiful word.
Justice is a prerequisite for human dignity.
Justice is also heat, fraternity, solidarity with those who have suffered the injustice of implacable
terror.
civil society has left this afternoon on the street, in Spain, to take up the cause of victims of Franco's terror, and to vindicate the dignity of hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave their lives for freedom and democracy in our country.
Today, many years later, we are aware of the price they paid for us to meet freely and peacefully in the square, on his behalf and that of freedom, justice and democracy.
Beyond the technicalities, the legal arguments and legal labyrinths, we say that today, once again, is the dignity of victims of Franco what is at stake.
The consequences of a process that in democracy, soiled his memory, he despises the pain of their children, grandchildren, and condemns the desire for justice of thousands of English families, far beyond the process itself.
This case could be interpreted, and so has the foreign press as a pitiful evidence of the minority of English democracy, a state that thirty-five years after the dictator died,
still feeling the effects of terror Francisco Franco indiscriminate who resorted to bullying
the endless English for four decades. That
judicial initiatives of far-right, have been shut down the investigation of the crimes of the Franco regime, represents a scandal without precedent in the recent history of our country, which contradicts the essential nature of democratic principles and returns us to the dark night of the murderers.
Everyone knows that the 113,000 corpses, even today, still buried in ditches and vacant lots, are evidence of a process of systematic extermination of a portion of the population that can only be understood as a crime against humanity.
No one can admit that the desire of the sons and grandsons of widows who want to recover the remains of their loved ones, to restore their dignity as they snatched a wrongful death and reclaim the memory of their struggle for freedom and the democracy can be of crime.
No one can even understand that a democratic state
charged with a crime of trespass to a judge who has taken the principles of truth, justice and reparation for victims, in Spain to apply the doctrine of Penal Law International
few years ago, allowed to act against crimes committed in countries such as Argentina or Chile.
crimes against humanity can not be granted amnesty and do not prescribe
ever.
The 1977 amnesty law, pre-constitutional, can not override the Constitution, or on international treaties and agreements signed by our country's Human Rights.
Spain can not remain an exception to the English courts.
Today, on this April afternoon, civil society is in the streets to demand the maturity of our democracy and to take up the cause of victims of dictatorship. The democratic impulse that led to the parliamentary approval of the Historical Memory Law should continue, and deepened to prevent recurrence in future embarrassing incidents like the judge's order
Varela.
In solidarity with the victims, universal justice and the dignity of democratic Spain:
No to Impunity!
investigate the crimes of the Franco regime is not a crime!
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