Former national police officer 'Billy the Boy' dies of coronavirus, accused of torture under Franco

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Antonio González Pacheco, the former national police inspector better known as Billy el Niño for being accused of being a torturer under Franco , has died at the age of 71 at Covid-19 at the San Francisco de Asís hospital in Madrid. This agent was accused, along with other state police officers, of inflicting wild torture on dozens of opponents of Franco. Pacheco stopped and interrogated with forms from the Wild West, presumably, hence the nickname.

Paceco is part was considered the harshest of the inspectors of the Social Political Brigade, the political police of Franco, and for that reason he deserved a character in Seven days of January , the film with which Juan Antonio Bardem portrayed the murder of the lawyers of Atocha. It also appears in the Cuéntame series , mentioned as a whip at the service of the Francoist repression

In March 2019, investigative court number 49 in Madrid opened proceedings to investigate Antonio González Pacheco and four other people for a crime against humanity, in what will be the first investigation to be carried out after several rejected complaints.

In the order, the judge María Isabel Durantez admits the complaint presented by Miguel Ángel Gómez, represented by the CEAQUA platform of victims of Francoism, on the understanding that the facts described "presume the possible existence of a criminal offense . " It is the first time that a court agrees to investigate the possible commission of crimes by Billy el Niño, inspector of the Franco Political Social Brigade.

Miguel Ángel Gómez filed his complaint in the Plaza de Castilla courts in Madrid to denounce that he was arrested and tortured twice in the last years of the dictatorship. The first of them in 1971, accused of propaganda and attack on authority, the second in 1973, accused of illicit association for belonging to the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), after which he spent 7 days incommunicado in the General Directorate of Security and then 15 days in the infirmary before being transferred to the Carabanchel prison.

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