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Spain

11/02/2015 16:40 (updated 02.11.2015 16:50)

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Madrid is the city that keeps most vestiges of the dictatorship, with 150 streets, alleys, squares and dedicated to prominent figures of the era of dictator Francisco Franco in 1939 to monuments to 1975. Among them, the Victory Arch near the residence of the Spanish presidents, at Moncloa Palace, built in 1950 to commemorate the victory of the military coup.

“This is the first time a set of writings presented denouncing criminally municipal heads,” says the lawyer in a statement to the newspaper Infolibre.

The specialist noted that “penalties for these crimes reach up to two years of disqualification from public office “also points to the” reparation for victims of Franco, give us dignity as a country and standardize compliance with laws. “

According to lawyer, municipalities reported are in breach of Article 15 of the Law of Historical Memory, which states that “take measures for the removal of shields, badges, plaques and other commemorative objects or references exaltation, personal or collective the military uprising, the Civil War and the repression of the dictatorship. “

Ranz wants” an end to impunity for those who refuse to obey the law and reparation for victims of Francoism is made, leaving to humiliate daily with the presence of these elements in their cities. “

Among the accused,” there mayors of virtually all parties. It’s just a matter of dignity. No one imagines that in a Berlin building remains one swastika or Rome a bust of Mussolini. “