The four former presidents of the government of democracy, Felipe González, José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy, have shown their support for former Interior Minister Rodolfo Martín Villa, who will testify on Thursday before the Argentine judge María Servini, who investigates alleged crimes in the Franco dictatorship.

The former minister will voluntarily testify by videoconference in the Argentine Consulate before Servini that he has been accused since 2014 for twelve deaths caused by shooting by police, civil guards and far-rightists in the Transition (1976-1978).

Martín Villa has contributed to the procedure a series of letters from personalities that show their support.

In addition to the four former presidents of the Executive Branch, the speakers of the Constitution

Miguel Herrero

and

Miquel Roca

- the other five have died - as well as four former general secretaries of the General Union of Workers and Workers' Commissions,

Nicolás

, have been sent to the Argentine court.

Redondo, Antonio Gutiérrez, Cándido Méndez

and José María Fidalgo.

"Defense of the rule of law"

The testimonies of 19 political and union personalities highlight that Rodolfo Martín-Villa always acted with a total commitment to defend the rule of law and reform the State Security Forces, according to defense sources.

In the Argentine complaint, filed by relatives and friends of several victims of police actions in the Transition, he attributes to the former minister having participated in a "plan to terrorize Spanish supporters of the representative form of government through the physical elimination of their most representative exponents ".

On the other hand, in a letter addressed to the judge on August 25, Martín Villa states that all those who testify in his defense are supporters of the representative form of government and several, in addition, political adversaries, "whose physical elimination I intended according to the complaint. Now they appear before your honor. "

The reform of Dolores Delgado

Recently, the current State Attorney General, Dolores Delgado, issued on August 4 an internal note where she changed the criteria maintained by the Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office on the investigations carried out in Argentina on the crimes of the Franco regime.

Delgado revoked an order issued in September 2016 by former attorney general Consuelo Madrigal, where he was interested in the Public Ministry reporting against fulfilling the letters rogatory issued by Servini as the Spanish justice system was competent to investigate the facts by the Argentine judge .

The Prosecutor's Office headed by Madrigal also defended that the acts pursued by Judge María Servini are prescribed.

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