Główny temat z dnia Środa, 19. Listopad 2008

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Garzón gives up

Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón has dropped his investigation into crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and under the Franco dictatorship, passing it on to the regional courts. In so doing Garzón has forestalled the highest criminal court in Spain, which was to decide whether the case fell under his jurisdiction. The European press asks why.

La Vanguardia - Hiszpania

With his decision to hand over responsibility for investigating the crimes of the past to Spain's regional courts, Garzón has left opening the mass graves to the country's autonomous regions. Rightly so, writes La Vanguardia newspaper. "In his decision, Garzón also evokes the invalidity of actions against Franco and 44 other high-level leaders for reasons of their death. This is understandable to everyone and clearly shows how absurd this judge's relentless undertakings were. Happily, his decision now removes responsibility for investigating the past in an open, harmonious way from the judiciary and hands it back to the political realm. Now the victims and their next of kin must be given the recognition they have been denied for so long. All the victims, without distinctions." (19/11/2008)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Ruchy społeczne, » Historia, » Hiszpania

taz - Niemcy

The left-wing daily die tageszeitung voices surprise at the Spanish state prosecutors' failure to support Garzón's investigation, "considering that the number of victims amounted to tens of thousands. What is at issue here is a systematic wave of purges against all those who remained loyal to the democracy Franco toppled. Even international human rights organisations have accused Spain of not wanting to face its past. The bereaved are not the only ones to be shocked that a government that by law claims to champion the cause of remembering the past refuses to do this. It's a scandal. But once again it seems [Spain's Prime Minister] Zapatero is above all concerned with passing packages of legislation that look good in the headlines. Once things get concrete he does the same as all his predecessors did before him. He lifts the carpet then sweeps all the dirt under it." (19/11/2008)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Polityka wewnętrzna, » Historia, » Hiszpania
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Reiner Wandler

Corriere della Sera - Włochy

The Italian daily Corriere della Sera suspects that Garzón's decision to drop the investigation is a strategic move. "There are those who interpret Garzón's decision as a withdrawal and those who see it as a clever countermove. ... The judge is withdrawing before the Sala Penale, the criminal court of the Audiencia Nacional [National Court of Spain], can exclude him from the proceedings at the behest of the state prosecutors. This way Garzón has pre-empted his opponents and passed responsibility on to the 20 regional courts, thus thwarting the plans to have the investigation definitively shelved. The judge has simply distributed his files among the investigations offices of the 20 provinces in which mass graves have been found, as well as the criminal court and the ministry of justice, to whom he passed on the files together with the notification that he had already set up a special panel of experts to deal with the technicalities of the opening of the mass graves." (19/11/2008)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Hiszpania
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Elisabetta Rosaspina

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