A brief overview of relevant Articles
There is a great deal about Laws and Rights on these pages, but even before we get to such matters there is a moral issue; it is morally repugnant that anyone can defend or seek to whitewash the crimes against humanity of the murderous Fascist dictatorship.
The failure of the Spanish state to face up to the crimes of the Fascist era has been condemned by many individuals and organisations of repute including the United Nations.
It is a disgrace that a law was needed to open the mass graves filled with the victims of the murderous Fascist regime, and also to have removed from public view their offensive artefacts - the graves should have been opened, and the artefacts torn down five minutes after the end of that criminal regime.
It is morally repugnant that many in local government and the judiciary deliberately subvert the law by preventing the opening of mass graves, and the removal of Fascist artefacts.
While the recovery of the remains of murder victims in mass graves can not realistically be performed by private individuals acting independently, the same is not the case with artefacts, and it is morally repugnant that anyone should be put on trial for accomplishing that which the law intends, and which human decency demands.
Below are four Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. Two of these Articles have been comprehensively violated in what amounts to a kangaroo court in the town of Fonsagrada. The other two articles are advisory.
Article 17, below, is an instruction not to seek to subvert the intention of the Convention -
needless to say this will go over the heads of many in the Spanish judiciary.
