“The Government is in a position to declare reparation and personal recognition to the family of Puig Antich, as we did last year with that of President Companys, if the family so decides.” This is the gesture made by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the execution during the Franco regime of the anarchist militant Salvador Puig Antich
The minister’s response came after the parliamentary question registered by Junts in which he urged the central government to apologize for the execution in the midst of the dictatorship.
Having listened to the request made by the post-convergent deputy, Eduard Pujol, the minister recalled that “today’s Spain has nothing to do with that Spain.” And after declaring that the current Government, like the group of democrats, “have also been victims of the dictatorship”, he has promised to continue working on the democratic memory law and its application with next steps in the Council of Ministers.
Torres has asserted that “the most important value we have is the recovery of democracy and that those vile events such as the murder of Puig Antich are examples for the new generations, the young people of our country, to learn what happened in this in this country with a war and 40 years of dictatorship” (…) “We are victims of a stage of repression that this Government is clear that no vestige of the Franco dictatorship can be defended, but precisely the opposite, it must be vilified and retired,” he added.
