MB Civic

Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón is under attack from the fascist Falange party of Spain who are trying to disbar Garzón for admitting lawsuits filed by organizations and individuals seeking assistance with the location and exhumation of the remains of family members from the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. For this a judge ruled that Garzón must stand trial, facing banishment from the bench for twelve to twenty years. Boehm writes..

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Fascist party it will be a devastating loss .. It will also convert Spain into a legal embarrassment in the eyes of the world and discredit the integrity of Spanish jurists .. if Garzón is debarred it also means that fascism will be validated as a legitimate and effective political force in democratic Spain. Not only will the family members of the victims of fascist violence lose the only judge daring enough to challenge the 1977 amnesty law protecting those responsible for mass extermination and state repression .. they will also be forced to swallow the fact that .. fascist complaints carry more weight than the burden of those traumatized by the Spanish state during much of the twentieth century

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