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Franco victims defend Garzón
posted on: Feb 2 2012 8:46 by RDugey. Viewed 12 times.
Two elderly women whose relatives disappeared in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and a historian yesterday defended judge Baltasar Garzón in the Supreme Court, which he judged for trying to investigate crimes of Francoism.
The three witnesses called by the defence of Garzón, yesterday became the first representatives of victims of war and the dictatorship who told a court how came about the disappearance of their relatives, as well as his fruitless search.
Garzón, which acquired international notoriety by persecuting repressors of dictatorships in argentina and Chile, is accused of obstruction of Justice as a result of a lawsuit filed by an Association of right-wing after having it declared competent in 2008 for crimes of Francoism, ignoring the amnesty law adopted in Spain in 1977 at the beginning of democracy.
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