The entities promoting the reconversion of the current building of the headquarters of the Superior Police Prefecture of Barcelona, at number 43 of Vía Layetana in the Catalan capital, today inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Let us do justice, let us remember” to demand its transformation into a memorial remember that it was in several historical periods, such as during the Franco dictatorship, torture sceneas well as the departure of the National Police Corps (CNP).
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Sortim al carrer to demand the conversion of the Prefecture of Via Laietana 43, symbol of police torture, into a center of historical memory.
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“The promoting entities express their concern and demand that the center of the discontented be transferred to a police center and that in a participatory process, the Generality and the rest of the Catalan institutions, together with the memory entities, define what the memory center should be, which in no case requires the presence of the police forces”, recall the entities.
As reported by ABC, the Generalitat of Catalonia modified its criteria, and at the same time it took up the request to transform the building into a memorial, considering that the presence of the current CNP management The project was not compatible with him, contrary to what the Catalan president himself had defended. The Minister of Justice and Democratic Quality of the Generalirat, Ramon Espadaler, sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Granda-Marlaska, urging him to find a solution on this matter.
In response to this request, Interior Ministry sources told ABC that its owner had not changed his mind and that the transformation of the building into anti-torture memorial This does not imply the departure of the CNP from its current location.
