• Summons. Rodolfo Martín Villa will defend the Transition today before the judge as a stage of "reconciliation" in which "genocide was impossible"

  • DECISION: Martín Villa asks to testify before Judge Servini and defend himself without the 'parapet' of non-extradition

The former minister during the Transition

Rodolfo Martín Villa

has raised this Thursday before the Argentine judge who imputes crimes against humanity the absurdity of his investigation: "If the version of the complaint is accepted, if

Adolfo Suárez

lived it would be impossible that he would not be accused also of genocide or crimes against humanity, a situation that I do not dare to describe, "he said.

Martín Villa has testified for more than two hours by videoconference before Judge

María Servini

from the Argentine consulate in Madrid.

"I have come to defend myself, because I rebel to live under the presumption of guilt instead of the presumption of innocence, but above all to defend that it is impossible that in the Transition there was a genocide," explained Martín Villa, who has insisted on voluntarily giving a statement despite the fact that he was not obliged to do so because the Spanish Justice has repeatedly opposed Judge Servini's case.

In addition to maintaining that the Transition was "the opposite" of what the complaint raises, the former politician has responded to the specific deaths attributed to him, a dozen in total.

Five occurred in a confrontation between the Police and workers in Vitoria in March 1976. Martín Villa has specified that his intervention as Minister of Union Relations took place "after" the eviction of the workers in which the deaths occurred.

His task, he said, consisted "of adopting measures to prevent further violence, to declare a state of emergency and to prevent the interference of any military authority."

According to the complaint, in this episode he acted hand in hand with former president Adolfo Suárez.

According to sources close to the former minister, Martín Villa has acknowledged that in Vitoria "there were certainly errors, serious errors, and police behavior contrary to respect for people's rights and, therefore, it would be legitimate for a just reparation to be demanded."

"But one thing is to understand the pain of the victims and the necessary reparation," he added, "and another is to accept an account of what happened, which leads the complaint to even affirm that in the Spanish Transition there were crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity ".

The interrogation has also focused on five deaths that occurred in various places on the occasion of the Week for Amnesty in May 1977. Martín Villa has indicated that at that time "there were no longer any political prisoners in the jails" and that the amnesty that was He was asking for "terrorists" imprisoned for murders.

He has insisted that, if anything, the deaths were not part of a deliberate plan.

Regarding a death for which he is blamed in the Sanfermines of 1978, he stressed that at that time Spain had had a year of democracy, that the Amnesty Law had been approved and that Congress had already agreed with the law on the Constitution.

After the so-called investigatory statement, according to Argentine law, the judge has 10 days to decide whether to archive the case or process Martín Villa so that the case can proceed.

Before giving a statement, the former minister presented the judge with written statements from various personalities rejecting that he could have criminal responsibilities.

among the letters were those from former government presidents

Felipe González

,

José María Aznar

,

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

and

Mariano Rajoy

.

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