The separatist groups, the majority in the regional parliament, and on the left behind this initiative believe that these women have been "victims of misogynistic persecution" and are demanding that their names be given to streets in certain towns in the region. .
The witch hunt, which lasted several centuries, was particularly intense in this region.
According to the local scientific journal Sapiens - whose investigations served, together with the research of the Barcelona historian Pau Castell, as a basis for this resolution - Catalonia was one of the first regions in Europe where acts anti-witchcraft, from 1471.
It is also considered to be one of the regions where the most executions of "witches" have taken place.
“We recently recovered the names of more than 700 women who, between the 15th and 18th centuries, were judged, tortured and executed”, thus indicated the parties that proposed this resolution, which was adopted by a very large majority ( 114 votes for, 14 against and 6 abstentions).
The tragic lives and deaths of these women - denounced by their neighbors - will now be analyzed from a gender perspective, in order to raise public awareness of their plight, as is already the case in Scotland, Switzerland, Norway and Spanish region of Navarre, details the approved text.
"Before we were called witches, now we are called + feminazis +, hysterics or + badly fucked +. Before, we were talking about witch hunts and now we are talking about feminicides", defended Jenn Díaz at the tribune of the regional parliament , of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC).
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