Fernandez Guaza: an unpunished criminal against humanity in Buenos Aires.

Jose Ignatius Fernandez Guaza, the murderer of Arturo Ruiz in a demonstration of 1977, has been located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In an interview he admitted having shot Ruíz, issue that has already been echoed by different media outlets in Argentina and Spain. The family's lawyers requested the arrest and investigation. But the prosecutor argued that it is not proven that it is a crime against humanity.. For years the criminal has enjoyed total impunity that must be broken so that justice is done.. Then, We reproduce a statement made by the Collective for the Forgotten of the Transition (C.O.T.) in Madrid, 2 November 2023.

“The murderer of Arturo Ruiz must be tried for crimes against humanity”.

"After 46 years ago, the murderer of Arturo Ruiz has been located in Buenos Aires. After committing the murder, he 23 to declare itself a provisional government and above all to prevent the advances of the protesters from the suburbs 1977, José Ignacio Fernández Guaza ran away with the direct collaboration, in his own words, of the Civil Guard and the French CRS. Fernández Guaza was carrying a false passport, supplied by Spanish security services, which allowed him to reside in Argentina and Paraguay during the military dictatorships that were established in both countries. So, The Spanish Minister of the Interior was Rodolfo Martín Villa.

This individual, son of a Falangist soldier, friend of the president of the Francoist government Luis Carrero Blanco, boasts of his excellent relations with the police, in particular with the torturer Antonio González Pacheco (billy the kid) and recognizes that he has lived peacefully thanks to the Spanish authorities. He has also reported that even in 1979, in Argentina, He received a visit from officials from the Presidency of the Government who asked him if he was going to continue “working”. Likewise, Arturo's murderer confesses that he held a meeting in Paraguay with Interpol agents, with whom he reached an agreement to remain a fugitive from justice.

On the other hand, states that he had contacts with the Paraguayan ambassador in Spain and that he had a direct connection with a counterintelligence chief and with Blas Piñar. With the impunity granted to him by the Spanish authorities, This criminal recognizes that he participated in the systematic and criminal plan that Franco's power established to end the lives of all those people who demanded a direct and total break with the dictatorship..

He participated in the Montejurra murders (1976), He had contacts with the Italian neo-fascists of Stefano Delle Chiaie, linked to several murders in Spain, and it was also related to fascist organizations that committed crimes during the transition and whose leaders hid in Brazil.. He recognizes that some of the Atocha murderers fled, As the, with false documentation provided by the Spanish police services.

A few weeks ago the National Court ruled that the murder of Arturo Ruiz was not due to the Franco dictatorship, the statements of this murderer, Fernandez Guaza, They deny that crazy resolution and force the judges to investigate this crime of Arturo Ruiz, in application of the Law of Historical Memory, that requires investigation of crimes committed during Franco's regime.

The family of Arturo Ruiz and the Collective for the Forgotten of the Transition (C.O.T.) They are not going to give up their efforts so that justice is done. Judge María Servini continues a criminal process against Martín Villa for this murder and others 12 plus, perpetrated in Vitoria, Pamplona, Barcelona and other cities in the Basque Country (in the fight for amnesty). The statements of this murderer demonstrate that the transition murders and the police and judicial protection of these criminals are part of a perfectly established plan., "They are crimes against humanity and must be judged as such.".

Madrid, 2 November 2023.

Collective for the Forgotten of the Transition (C.O.T.)