Spain: the murders of the Franco regime and the transition continue unpunished
Emilio Hellin, killer of Yolanda Gonzalez, and other human rights violators are not paying for their crimes. Their impunity slaps society, protected by the reactionary regime of '78. It is necessary to build a strong popular movement to investigate and punish those responsible and politically responsible for crimes against humanity..
By Ruben Tzanoff
Yolanda González is the name of 19 years that in 1980 was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Madrid, by a commando of the fascist Spanish Basque Battalion. Yolanda was a member of the Socialist Workers Party (PST) español, organization that we claim as part of our militant tradition. His murder remains unpunished.
A murderer on the loose
Emilio Hellín is the name of the murderer and leader of the fascist Battalion. All murderers are unpunished. It is worth remembering what was expressed by Asier González, Yolanda's brother, about Hellín: “…it just happened 12 years in prison 43 to whom he was sentenced, despite two frustrated escape attempts and a third more through which he managed to escape to Paraguay, until his extradition was requested.". Also what happened in 2013 when they learned that "the Spanish Ministry of the Interior had been paying for Hellín's services for years to train State Security Forces and Corps in forensic espionage techniques.", computer tracking and collaborating in judicial cases…”
Justice! A claim that is still alive
We always remember Yolanda. Not only as a tribute but also as an action of claim. This time, We stand in solidarity with Yolanda's family, whathas reported a very serious incident: the hiring of Emilio Hellín by the defense of the former president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs (JxCAT). It is outrageous that "to prepare an expert report in their defense" they went to the murderer who now calls himself Luis Enrique Hellíng. This fact expresses the contempt with which bourgeois politicians like Borràs take up the cause of punishing Yolanda's murderers., that from the 2002 is officially recognized as a victim of terrorism, although the correct formulation should be “state terrorism”.
Expert on corrupt politicians, a thriving business
Hellin creó Net Computer Forensies y New Tecnology Forensics, SL, now converted into a study center. From these companies he provides his services as a “forensic computer expert.”. His ties with the State Security Forces and Corps allowed him to increase his disastrous client portfolio.. Collaborated with the Police, the Civil Guard and other regional police forces, received public contracts from the Government as an advisor to the security forces in information technology, terrorism and crime and instructed members of thethe police. In addition to Borràs, He had former judge Salvador Alba as clients, to Cristina Cifuentes, former president of the Community of Madrid and other leaders of the PP of Valencia. In all cases it acted asexpert witness for politicians accused of corruption. This is the “employment” that the regime protects and at the same time uses, commanded by the person who shot Yolanda González twice in the head.
Faced with the same indignation, the same fight
The indignation of relatives, Yolanda's friends and colleagues are the same as those of Gustau Muñoz., a young activist 16 years since he was murdered in Barcelona, for the police repression on the Diada del 11 September 1978. His murderers remain unpunished. The complicity of Spanish justice is so brutal, that his family had to file a case through the"Argentine Complaint". And he continues in the fight against the impunity of Martín Villa.
Another case to mention is that of Arturo Ruiz García, student and leftist activist murdered in Madrid, he 23 to declare itself a provisional government and above all to prevent the advances of the protesters from the suburbs 1977, during a pro-amnesty demonstration. He was killed by a far-right member of the parapolice group the “Guerrillas of Christ the King” who collaborated with the State. The cases of Arturo and Gustau are among a much broader list of victims, for which justice is demanded from different instances, how he does itCollective for the Forgotten of the Transition. Nor can we fail to mention the families thatThey demand the so-called “stolen babies” law”, blocked in the legislature by the PSOE with different excuses.
Unity and mobilization against impunity
The murderers of Francoism and the transition are protected by the institutions of the '78 regime and by the successive governments after Franco's death., led by the PP and the PSOE. The laws approved in different administrations have not been enough, nor efficient as a tool to investigate and punish the murders of Franco's regime and the transition. The advice to “Turn the page” is a trap to continue ensuring that injustice triumphs. Because, will not resolve the democratic debt that exists with the victims and with the entire society. Transparent investigation and punishment of the guilty, those who committed crimes against humanity, It will only come through the mobilization and organization of the workers and the people, junto a los organismos de derechos humanos. It is necessary to set up a great popular movement that actively mobilizes to settle accounts with the past, guarantee democratic rights in the present and prevent obscurantism from taking over the future.
