They reject a March trial Garzón

Prominent trade unionists, politicians and artists participated yesterday in Madrid in a massive demonstration, called by the platform "solidarity with Garzón", to protest against the court cases that the judge has open the Court Supreme Spanish.

Garzón, the Spanish judge who became known internationally after ordering in 1998 the late Chilean former dictator hissene Augusto Pinochet arrest, is being tried in the High Court for an alleged crime of obstruction of Justice, to declare competent to judge the crimes of Francoism.

Baltasar Garzón was already tried two weeks ago in the Supreme order listeners in a case of corruption and was convicted on Friday of improper bribery by the same court, which instructs the cause open to the judge by the amounts with which various entities sponsored several courses he received in New York in 2005 and 2006.

Demonstrators chanted cries in favour u000aGarzón and demand that it is judged to be at the "criminal franquismo", slogans which are repeated in the banners. The General Secretaries of the main Spanish trade unions, the General Workers Union (UGT) and workers commissions (CCOO), Candido Mendez and Ignacio Fernández Toxo, respectively, defended the "legitimacy" of Garzón to investigate repression Francoist.

Fernández Toxo felt "lamentable and absolutely intolerable" that the only judge who sought to recover the memory and a minimum of repair is now sitting on the bench.

For its part, the general coordinator of the Coalition United Left (IU), Cayo Lara, said yesterday that the Supreme Court is "building bridges of silver to corruption and a wall of silence to the Francoist genocide", if it does not fly back on the causes for which is judging the Judge Garzón.

Also attended the demonstration Spanish actors Pilar Bardem, Marisa u000aWalls, Lola Herrera, Juan Diego Botto, José Sacristán and the poet Luis García Montero, among others.

Bardem, mother of the actor Javier Bardem, also considered that Garzón, who described as symbol for human rights is subject "to a political lynching...".

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