“No to Impunity! Is the dignity of victims of Franco what is at stake,” said the filmmaker Pedro Almodovar to read a manifesto at the end of the march in Madrid convened under the slogan “Against the impunity of Franco in solidarity with the victims. “

” That judicial initiatives right-wing organizations have managed to halt the investigation of the crimes of the Franco regime, represents an unprecedented scandal, “complained the writer Almudena Grandes .

Poet and prisoner of Marcos Ana Franco considered “incomprehensible that a democratic state charged with a crime of malfeasance to a judge in Spain to apply the doctrine of international criminal law a few years ago he allowed to act against such crimes committed in countries like Argentina or Chile. “

” Crimes against humanity can not be granted amnesty and never prescribe and 1977 amnesty law can not override the Constitution itself, “says the manifesto, after reading which observed a minute”s silence for the victims.

Meanwhile, several dozen people demonstrated convened by the Spanish Falange Party, which denounced Garzon on the grounds that investigated the disappearances without jurisdicti1000on to do so.

The demonstration of Madrid joined those organized in several Spanish cities, which brought together hundreds of people in Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, among others.

Outside of Spain, over a hundred people gathered in Paris and London about thirty. Also convened in Brussels, Lisbon and Dublin, and Latin America in Buenos Aires and Mexico City

Spanish Forum in Paris echoed the merger, as well as social network Facebook. Similar concentrations were held this afternoon in various cities in the south of France, Pau, Montpellier and Bordeaux, convened by the memory associations Republican Spain and Association Memory of the Spanish Republican Exile in France.

Garzon”s trial, which will begin soon, sowed controversy in Spain and raised a wave of support abroad, especially in Latin America, where the judge, 54, is known for its practice of to achieve universal justice and the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.

Judge will be judged after the Spanish Supreme Court to admit the allegations of three far-right groups accuse the Judge of malfeasance, so that could be temporarily suspended in office.

The plaintiffs allege that the judge ignored the 1977 amnesty law, adopted for such crimes after the death of General Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish democratic transition.

Challenge. Garzon yesterday challenged the judge in charge of his case, Luciano Varela, saying it is “partial” in the case, so the Supreme must decide whether to change of judge. Former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez backed the judge stating that the process Garzon is “incomprehensible” and “unfair”, while the leader of the opposition, the conservative Mariano Rajoy, reported this morning, “a campaign against the brutal and undemocratic Supreme Court and the judiciary for not trying a person. “

Garzon briefly investigated in 2008 the fate of about 114,000 disappeared during the Civil War (1936-1939) and early Franco years (1939-1975), arguing that the crime of enforced disappearance and does not prescribe against the prosecution. It was the first investigation of these events in Spain.

It disappeared several victims of a complaint recently filed in court Argentina to investigate the disappearances, unable to be investigated in Spain.

In addition, Garzon is also the subject of a complaint, supported by justice, two lawyers for 200,000 euros charged for some courses sponsored by the Santander bank at the University of New York in 2005 and 2006.