The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, attended on Thursday the conference 'Francoist condemnations: annulment procedures', an act focused on the application of the Law of Democratic Memory and on the institutional recognition of the victims of Francoism.
The meeting, organized by the collective Desmemoriados in CASYC, was attended by the prosecutor of Human Rights and Democratic Memory of Cantabria, Carlos Yáñez, whose intervention revolved around the mechanisms that citizens can activate to urge the Public Prosecutor’s Office to intervene in cases of sentences handed down by emergency courts during the dictatorship.
The day was presided over by the prosecutor of the Democratic Memory Room of the Attorney General’s Office, Dolores Delgado, and by the Superior Prosecutor of Cantabria, Jesús Arteaga, and is part of the efforts to publicize the new legal channels for the declaration of nullity of resolutions considered unfair due to their origin and lack of legal guarantees.
Gómez de Diego highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain to "truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition", fundamental pillars of Law 20/2022 of Democratic Memory. The delegate stressed the importance of these meetings to "continue advancing in the recognition of those who suffered the repression of the Franco dictatorship" and facilitate the access of citizens to the procedures authorized to restore their dignity.
The act comes weeks after, for the first time in Cantabria, a court declared the injustice of a Franco conviction in the case of Bernardo Incera Varela, opening the door to new procedures of this type in the autonomous community.