Sixteen Ferrol political prisoners of the Franco regime will ask the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, to apply the Law of Historical Memory and proceed to change the nomenclature of a dozen roads that, they explain, are dedicated to military personnel who played a key role in the coup of State that unleashed the Civil War and in the subsequent repression.
In a letter that will be registered next week in the Government Sub-delegation with a referral to the head of the military department, the reprisals, among which are Manuel Monge, Sari Alabau, Anxo Ferreiro, Rafael Pillado or Francisco Rodríguez, explain that the same Ministry “incumpre a lei”, so it urges to put an end to “this shameful situation” that also extends to the rest of the symbols of exaltation of the Franco regime that still exist in the city and that amount to a total of 47. If it does not, They warn that they will go to court.
The letter documents in detail the antecedents and the steps that have been taken since in 1981, just a few days after the attempted coup of 23-F, the names of personalities linked to the dictatorship were removed from the city’s street map. , as well as other symbols of the regime. He recalls that, shortly after, the Ministry of Defense reacted by transferring several of them to the Arsenal road, “despising the democratic vontade manifested by the municipal corporation of Ferrol” and committing “an offense to 714 people assassinated by Franco’s regime in the region.”
The signatories emphasize that the plenary session of the Council carried out in 2009 with the votes of the PSOE, the EU and BNG a motion calling for the change and that there were also initiatives in Congress to amend the situation, without result.
“Defense, you have to give an example,” said Manuel Monge yesterday, who also drew attention to the survival of exaltation symbols in other spaces of the naval city.
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