On Wednesday, Judge Carmen López Mori, President of the Court of First Instance No. 6 of Ferrol, issued the decisions pursuant to which For the first time in Galicia, two sentences dating back to the Franco regime have been cancelledI also requested weeks ago the families of the victims of the dictatorship.
The Cultural Association of Democratic Historical Memory celebrated the completion of these processes, which were handled by the Prosecutor of Democratic Memory and Human Rights, María Encarnacion Mayán.
The first order came from Carmen Mendigoscia, granddaughter of Miguel Mendigoscia, The retired Marine captain is associated with the Republican left, which was “I am convicted for not supporting the military coupHe was imprisoned for life in August 1936 and was killed by public forces a few days later in the Ferrol neighborhood of Canedo.
Meanwhile, the second was taken by Brothers José and Francisco Varela for the 1942 denunciation of their father José Varela “for receiving a printed letter from the socialist Indalecio Prieto”A fact because of which he remained “a prisoner for two years in the San Felipe Castle and lost his job as a telegraph official.”
Democratic Historical Memory stressed that once “the facts are proven and the convictions are declared cancelled,” the judicial ruling will be included in the relevant files, in addition to adding the two cases to the state’s count of victims of repression.
The entity expressed its satisfaction with these “decisions regarding the annulment of sentences issued by the leading dictatorship in Galicia,” and expressed its gratitude to the family members, the judge herself, the prosecutor’s office responsible for the operation, as well as the lawyer Jesús Porta who cooperated in it.