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Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« on: November 03, 2014, 12:12:54 am »
An Argentine judge has asked Spain to arrest and extradite 20 former officials accused of abuses during the military rule of General Franco.

They cannot be tried in Spain because of an amnesty law but the officials could be prosecuted in Argentina.

The families of alleged victims asked Argentina for help because it has an extradition treaty with Spain.

In April, Spain's high court refused to extradite to Argentina a former policemen accused of torture.

Judge Maria Servini de Cubria issued the arrest and extradition warrants for two former ministers of General Franco's regime, and 18 other officials, invoking "universal jurisdiction" - a legal doctrine that authorises judges to try serious rights abused committed in other countries.

Using the doctrine, Spain briefly detained Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998.

The two most prominent suspects in Judge Servini's investigation are Rodolfo Martin Villa, 79, who was Franco's interior minister, and Jose Uteri Molina, 86, who was housing minister.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-29868270
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2014, 01:18:54 am »
Its going to be a very difficult time. The Mossad had a very hard time smuggling Adolf Eichmann.As Argentina has a history of turning down extradition requests for Nazi and Fascist criminals
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2014, 03:40:06 am »
Time for some good show trials to distract Argentines from what Kirchner et al are doing to the economy.
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2014, 04:47:18 am »
And Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 05:16:25 am »
Quote from: PzLdr on November 03, 2014, 04:47:18 am
And Francisco Franco is still dead.

A lot of their cronies are still alive and still a lot of suspected SS officers are still alive

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/nazi-ss-commander-living-minnesota
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 05:22:49 am »
Quote from: Oceander on November 03, 2014, 03:40:06 am
Time for some good show trials to distract Argentines from what Kirchner et al are doing to the economy.

They have all done their service for Allied intelligence and received their reward under the Paperclip program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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Re: Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 05:00:39 pm »
Quote from: PzLdr on November 03, 2014, 04:47:18 am
And Francisco Franco is still dead.
:laugh:
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