• Controversy: Javier Ortega Smith, on the Thirteen Roses: "They were women who tortured, killed and raped vilely"

The Association Thirteen Roses Asturias has announced this Saturday that it will take legal action against the secretary general of Vox, Javier Ortega Smith , in case he does not rectify the defamation and slander he poured against that group of young people shot by the Franco regime in 1939.

In a statement, this group, created in 2009 to ensure compliance with the Law of Historical Memory, gender equality and the dissemination of culture, shows "its most energetic rejection and indignation" by the statements of Ortega Smith , in his opinion, "lacking any documentary and historical support".

In his opinion, the manifestations of the leader of Vox respond to his interest "to rewrite recent history and sow among the Spaniards the division and ideological alignment of layers of society installed in revanchism and intolerance."

Ortega Smith said during an interview at TVE's Breakfasts that Las Treces Rosas "what they did was torture, rape and murder vilely" and that "they committed brutal crimes in the Czechs . "

The thirteen young people, twelve of them militants of the PCE or the Unified Socialist Youth (JSU), an organization that grouped the socialist and communist youths, were shot in Madrid on August 5, 1939, four months after the end of the civil war.

Two days before they had been sentenced to death with the accusation of being "responsible for a crime of adherence to the rebellion" in a summary war council against 58 defendants and for which 43 men were also executed without being accused of crimes attributed to them by Ortega-Smith.

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