Ramon Tremosa MEP asks European Council to dissolve Franco's Foundation

 

The Catalan MP Ramon Tremosa has asked for protection to The European Council in order to have the Franco’s Foundation dissolved. Coinciding with the 37^th Anniversary of the Spanish dictator´s death, he has written the European Council asking them to “bury this dreadful organization, unthinkable in any civilized European country”. Can you even think about a Benito Mussolini’s Foundation or an Adolf Hitler’s Foundation intended for exalting its figures in Italy or in Germany?, Tremosa has pointed out.

In a parliamentary question, Catalan MP has also asked the European Council if this Francisco Franco’s organisation is breaching the European law related with “the incitement to hate as well as exalting crimes through the figure of Francisco Franco”. European MP Ramon Tremosa points out in his writing to the European Council that this institution (the Europen Council) promotes its Member States “to have an appropriate legislation in order to criminally pursue the actions trying to incite people to hate, racism and xenophobia” as it appears in its decision 2008/913/JAI on November 20^th 2008, which must be carried out by all Member States. Tremosa assures that Francoism “had a special obsession against Catalonia and its people”; which meant the murder, the persecution and the torture of thousands of people “just for being Catalan or even worse for using the Catalan language”.

In this sense, he also reminds that Francisco Franco’s Foundation “still exists in Spain”. Much more, this Fundation has demanded the Spanish government to declare the State of War against Catalonia, as you can read on its leading article on October’s edition. Tremosa points out that the main goal of Francisco Franco’s Foundation is “to glorify the memory of the dead dictator”, so he wonders whether this breaches article 1 of the European Council’s decision (referred to “hate and exaltation of war crimes”) and whether the State should use articles 5 and 6 of the above mentioned decision in order to carry out criminal sanctions, and moreover dissolve this Foundation through the courts for exalting crimes against humanity.

Tremosa has regretted the fact that “Franco persecuted, tortured, put in prison and murdered thousands of Catalans. Many more suffered his systematic and violent persecution just for defending the Catalan Culture”. Furthermore, he added that “today is the 37^thAnniversary of his death “any kind of exaltation for this monster should be pursued with the full weight of the law.