Could

former Minister Ignacio Camuñas

have been fined by the Basque Government

for rejecting that the

Civil War

began with

a "coup d'etat"

?

The former politician would have avoided the sanction for being in Ávila, but the future Law of Historical Memory of the Basque Country establishes

fines of up to 10,000 euros for "any type of demonstration that represents the exaltation of the Franco regime

.

"

The question has been transferred to the Minister of Justice

Beatriz Artolazabal

who

has avoided giving a clear answer

to summarize what is collected in the last

five articles of the Historical Memory Law

which will be approved by the Basque Parliament in the second half of this year.

The Basque Government made up of the PNV and the Socialist Party of Euskadi has approved a draft bill that incorporates penalties

from 200 to 150,000 euros

. The most serious fines are established for those who carry

out illegal

burial

excavations

or

destroy these graves

of those killed during the Civil War and the Dictatorship. But among those that can be sanctioned with between 2,001 and 10,000 euros is a wide list of public demonstrations both in acts and through the media and social networks about the Civil War and the Franco regime. Specifically, in addition to the generic reference to "exaltation of the Franco regime" there is also an allusion to "using or issuing

offensive expressions

, vexatious or attempts against the

dignity of the victims or their relatives

of the Civil War or the Franco dictatorship ".

The future Basque Law on Historical Memory attributes to

the Gogora Institute the ability to impose sanctions of up to 10,000 euros

, the Governing Council will impose fines of up to 150,000 and municipalities may also sanction but only in the event that symbols that pay homage are not removed. to the Civil War or the Dictatorship.

The Basque regulation incorporates the celebration of an annual day of remembrance for the victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship, the creation of a DNA bank of exhumations in the Basque Country, the preparation of a catalog of places, itineraries and spaces of Memory Historical and the creation of a documentary center.

"Memory cannot

and should not be an instrument of division and confrontation

", defended the Minister of Justice Beatriz Artolazabal in the presentation of the project for which PNV and PSE-EE have their parliamentary majority to approve it although they have been willing to negotiate it with opposition groups.

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