The Association Memòria de Mallorca has filed a complaint with the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney for Democratic Memory of the Balearic Islands following the vandalism of the plaque in honour of Aurora Picornell and the “Rojas del Molinar”, republican activists killed on the Night of the Kings in 1937. Specifically, the graffiti appeared last Friday on the plaque installed in 2019 on the Wall of Sa Petrolera, in the Palma d’Es Molinar neighbourhood, where they all come from.
“We understand that these events affect the memory of the victims of the Civil War and Francoism, in particular that of Aurora Picornell Femenias who, along with four other women, was the victim of a forced disappearance and subsequent murder on January 5, 1937,” the memorial association denounces in a statement.
The entity requests the public prosecutor to open an investigation to identify the perpetrator and determine his criminal responsibility.
“We cannot allow the memory of the victims and human rights to be attacked, we cannot allow their rights and the rights of everyone to be violated and, therefore, we will continue to denounce where necessary and demand truth, justice, reparation, guarantees of non-repetition and memory,” concludes Memòria de Mallorca.
The figures of Picornell and the “Rojas del Molinar” were also attacked on June 18, when the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), furiously smashed the portrait of Picornell and Antònia and Maria Pascual while he was debating the repeal of the Balearic Democratic Memory Law.
This is an episode for which Le Senne must appear as an investigator before the investigating court number 1 of Palma on September 27, at 9:30 a.m., for an alleged hate crime.
During the debate, Le Senne repeatedly ordered the socialist deputies and members of the Parliamentary Council Mercedes Garrido and Pilar Costa to remove the portraits they had displayed of the three executed activists in order to maintain the neutrality of the Council required by the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament. House. When his request was not followed up, which the two parliamentarians rejected “as an act of justice and as an act of reparation for the women murdered by the Falangist executioners”, Le Senne tore up part of the photo that Garrido had displayed on his computer and expelled the two men. from the plenary session.
Le Senne assures that the breakage was “accidental” and that his intention was to remove the photograph, but not to break it. Also on September 27, at 11:30, Garrido herself, a member of the Council of Parliament, from whose computer Le Senne took the photo, is summoned to testify, but as a witness.
Likewise, the Autonomous Chamber authorized on September 3 the holding of an extraordinary plenary session in which the question of whether Le Senne should be dismissed from office as a result of what happened in the Chamber will be debated and voted on. For its part, the PP continues without confirming whether or not it will support the dismissal of Le Senne, despite the rupture of the governance agreements by the conservatives and Vox in the Autonomous Communities legislated by both.
