The amnesty law prevents the investigation of possible human rights violations prior to 1977. This is what the Barcelona Court recalls in its order, which has confirmed the file made by the Court of Instruction number 9 of Barcelona of the complaint presented by the Barcelona City Council and the sisters of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners executed with a vile stick by the Franco regime, against the drafter of his death sentence after a court martial in 1974. The court considers that the crime against humanity cannot be applied events that occurred in Spain before 1977, when the country adhered to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

It also details that the approved Amnesty law prevents the investigation of human rights violations before 1977. The order recognizes that this regulation "today would not meet the parameters" required to guarantee the rights of all "but" was approved by a democratic Parliament. " and it has been reaffirmed twice by the Congress of Deputies, the last one just two years ago. " The Barcelona City Council filed this complaint against the military officer who drew up the sentence, today an active lawyer, considering that the "death of Puig Antich was not an act of justice, but an act of barbarism."

The complaint was the first Francoist crime case that the Barcelona City Council took to court on its own initiative before the city courts with the support of the family of Salvador Puig Antich and memorial and human rights entities and connects with positions and previous actions of the municipal government. The Consistory appeared in two more cases: in the court number 1 of Buenos Aires (Argentina) for the crimes of the Franco regime committed in the city and the one presented by the AltraItalia Association, against the aerial bombings suffered in Barcelona between 1937 and 1939 .

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