An Argentine judge prosecutes former minister Rodolfo Martín Villa for homicide and torture during the Franco regime

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Argentine judge

has prosecuted

87-year-old

former minister

for murder and torture during the Franco dictatorship. The car, of more than 900 pages, assures that the former minister occupied "a preponderant position in the hierarchical structure of power" under which several deaths occurred, of which Servini places him as the main responsible, as reported by

and

.

The judge has decreed "the prosecution of Rodolfo Martín Villa with preventive detention, which will not be effective, by virtue of the exemption from prison ordered by the Alzada".

In addition, it orders the embargo on the assets of the former minister to cover the sum of 1,134,000,000 Argentine pesos, almost 10 million euros.

The former minister is accused of allowing the murder of the young

in 1977, of the March 3 massacre in Vitoria where five workers died, of the police repression in the Sanfermines of 1978 and of five deaths during the Pro Amnesty Week in May from 1977.

After a new complaint for the death of

in 1976 during the day of the referendum for the Government's Political Reform Project, an assassination that went unpunished, the judge has ordered the prosecution of Martín Villa.

Spanish collaboration

The judge asks different Administrations in Spain to provide certified photocopies of the criminal proceedings and summaries on the cases of the murdered people where Martín Villa is the main defendant.

Specifically, Villa is being investigated for the murder of up to 12 people at the hands of the Police, the Civil Guard or paramilitary groups linked to the Security Forces and Bodies.

For Podemos, that Martín Villa is prosecuted for the crimes of the Franco regime "is a great step against impunity."

However, the formation has indicated, in a publication on its Twitter account, that "it is a shame" that the Argentine justice is doing "what should have been done a long time ago in Spain."

Along the same lines, the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has pointed out that "it hurts" that other countries have to help the victims of Franco "to advance on the path of justice."

"Argentine judge María Servini is prosecuting Martín Villa for murder and torture. It hurts that other countries have to help the victims of the Franco regime to advance on the path of justice, but it is a very important step," Belarra tweeted .

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