In the same period, the Palacio de la Cumbre will be transferred to San Sebastián and the Fort of San Cristóbal in Navarra will be converted into a Place of Memory.
MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government has a period of one year, from the entry into force last Friday of the Democratic Memory Law, to appoint the technical commission that will be in charge of studying how the reprisals will be redressed for having fought for the consolidation of democracy once the Constitution was approved and until December 31, 1983.
The creation of this body is included in the sixteenth additional provision of the new memory law and is the result of the agreement that the PSOE and United We Can sealed with Bildu during the processing of the norm in Congress.
Specifically, the aforementioned provision establishes that within a year the Executive “will designate a technical commission to prepare a study on the cases of violation of Human Rights of people for their struggle for the consolidation of democracy, fundamental rights and democratic values, between the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution and December 31, 1983”.
In addition to studying these “assumed violations of Human Rights”, this commission will have to point out the different ways that are implemented to be able to recognize and repair these victims.
The parties that make up the coalition government also agreed with Bildu on two other issues that are included in two other additional provisions of the rule that comes into force this…: the transfer to the San Sebastián City Council of the Palacio de la Summit and the declaration as a place of Memory of the Fort of San Cristóbal, near Pamplona. In both cases, a period of one year is also given.
The Palacio de la Cumbre, located in the San Sebastian neighborhood of Aiete, was the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during Francisco Franco’s stays in the city, later it was used as the residence of the civil governor of Guipúzcoa and José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala in 1983, by civil guards from the Intxaurrondo barracks.
Its transfer to the City Council of San Sebastián will have to be done by signing an agreement and the objective is that this palace be dedicated to activities of recovery, safeguarding and dissemination of democratic memory.
The formula of the collaboration agreement will also be used in this case with the Government of Navarra and possibly with the municipality of Berrioplano for the declaration as a Place of Memory of the Fort of San Cristóbal. It will be the corresponding regional regulations that determine the financing and the activities that are programmed there.
This military fortress, officially called Fort Alfonso XII, is owned by the Spanish Army and was used as a prison between 1934 and 1945. On May 22, 1938, almost 800 Republican prisoners staged the largest prison break in the history of Spain. although more than 200 were shot dead and the vast majority of those who survived were arrested.
