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Judge Manuel García-Castellón, recently retired, received this Wednesday the Gold Medal awarded each year by the association of victims of terrorism. Dignity and justice during an event organized at the headquarters of the Military School of War, in Madrid, during which he demanded that “the bad guys can be called for what they are and that they occupy the residual level in History that they deserve. “Let’s not stop defending our country’s true heroes,” he shouted.
García-Castellón spoke after the ceremony in which she received the Dignity and Justice medal in the Silver category and was awarded posthumously to the prosecutor of the National Court Carmen Tagle, assassinated by the terrorist group ETA on the 12 September 1989. The badge was collected by his brother to a standing ovation from those present, among whom was the Attorney General of the National Court, Jesús Alonso, a personal friend of Tagle.
The magistrate dedicated his first words to him, as a “true protagonist” of an event that each year distinguishes the careers of professionals from the state security forces and organizations, justice and communication, among other areas , in the fight against terrorism and in the defense of its victims. “For all of them and for you, memory, dignity and justice,” García-Castellón said after collecting his badge from the association’s president, Daniel Portero.
During his presentation, he had a “memory for the victims of the Valencia floods” and said he was “skeptical” about the response they will receive from the Administration.
Prescription, “safe conduct of impunity”
“Seeing the images of villages devastated by floods and populations abandoned to their fate, demanding aid from the State which has not yet arrived… The recent experience on the island of La Palma makes me fear the worst. The treatment other victims received, not from a horrific climate catastrophe, but from a terrorist organization like ETA and other groups. As in the case of Tagle and so many other victims of terrorism,” he stressed, to qualify himself as “pessimistic or at least skeptical.”
He then highlighted the work of Dignity and Justice, which “works tirelessly to urge the authorities not to lose their zeal before the statute of limitations becomes a safe passage from impunity”, such as that which freed three former ETA leaders for their responsibility in the order to assassinate Ermua PP advisor Miguel Ángel Blanco.
García Castellón investigated this kidnapping and execution and reopened the case in 2022 to prosecute the leaders, but the facts, according to the criminal court, can no longer be judged because they are prescribed.
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