THIRTY YEARS THE "CASE ALMERIA" CRIMES OF DEMOCRACY with the same impunity THAT THE DICTATORSHIP ... FUSILATUAK
El Caso Almería begins 10, May 1981 of was started with three bodies burned in a Ford Fiesta in a road gully Gérgal , Almería. The report of the Guardia Civil were noted that "three ETA members who had tried to flee, responsible for the attack co NTRA General Valenzuela that had happened a couple of days earlier. They even put names: they were "Mazusta, Bereciartúa and Goyenechea FRAUD" . Day and a half later, three families, two in Santander and one in Swarovski (Almería ) were required for Almería attend. Were the families of Salamanca, Luis García Montero, a Santander, Luis Cobo Mier, and an immigrant, Juan Mañas Morales of that same Almería, where the three were to be killed and then burned to erase traces, forces of Guardia Civil , commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Castillo Quero. Facts
The "Case Almeria" has a prelude on 7 May 1981 in Madrid . ETA careful that day against the head of Fourth Military King, General Joaquin Valenzuela, gravely wounding him and killing his three accompanying aa
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Three days later the young Juan Mañas Morales (24 years) FEVE worker , Luis García Montero (33) FYESA worker and member of the PCE and Luis Manuel Cobo Mier (29) ACERIASA worker were heading from Santander to Pechina (Almería ) to go to communion 's brother first. A fault in the vehicle, forces young people to stop at Puertollano (Ciudad Real ), where he rented a Ford Fiesta. A resident of the town in La Mancha, after seeing the pictures on television of members of ETA ; Mazusta, Frade Goyenechea Bereciartúa and confuses the children with members of the band. After the call to this city to the Civil Guard , it mounted the hunt for the alleged command. Leading the group was placed Lt. Col. Carlos Castillo Quero.
On Saturday evening, May 9, 1981. The Ford Fiesta parked on the main avenue of Roquetas de Mar . Juan Mañas, a native of the town of Almeria Pechina accompanies his friends and colleagues in the RENFE of Santander Luis Cobo and Luis Montero, both invited to attend the first communion his brother Francisco Javier. Before I wanted to show Mañas Almería. The three young men were unaware that the day before they begin the journey Lt. Gen. Valenzuela had suffered an attack by ETA .
Mañas, Montero and Cobo at 21:05 were arrested without resistance at a local store, while doing some shopping. The next day, the bodies of the three appeared in the Ford Fiesta, charred and punctured by multiple bullets.
Castillo Quero and his henchmen (a total of 11 civil guards ) tortured the three innocent all that night in an old abandoned barracks of Guar Civil day , which was located in the town of Casafuerte Almeria. After discovering the error, tried to erase all evidence. They had to cut up the young to put them inside the car. Then they took him, hurl the car and set it on fire.
version official
On Sunday 10, an official statement announcing the death of three members of ETA in a shootout with the Civil Guard . The young bodies are found inside the charred car at the 8.400 km of road Gérgal . According to the official, detained as terrorism suspects and undocumented workers were armed and were taken to Madrid car. When they tried to attack the driver, civil guards were forced to fire the wheels of the vehicle in which they were handcuffed.
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Jose Roson, then Minister of Interior , repeated this version despite parliamentary hearing that the press described it "corpses, horribly burned, there are no legs and no arms, and bullet holes are visible at different points trunk and face ".
condemnation
The July 28, 1981, the Audiencia Provincial Almería of the three officers convicted of torture and murder - "to be criminally responsible for three counts of murder "and mark the payment of compensation of three million pesetas to the families of the three victims. In 1984 the Supreme Court confirm the sentence of 24 years in prison for Lt. Col. Castillo Quero, 15 for and 12 Lieutenant Torres Gomez for Fernández Guard Llamas. The execution of the sentence was punctuated by irregularities, and that until the murderers were expelled from the Civil Guard , served sentences in military facilities in
ordinary prisons rather than the withdrawal-which acquired several million pesetas, of the reserved funds of the Ministry of Interior . The lawyer representing families of deceased, Dario Fernandez, received numerous death threats and had to hide. Came to live hidden in a cave.
The letter
"... at first gave him a big beating, particularly by the guard C. .., losing consciousness. Then they killed him with a pistol each reciver (sic) by the embolvieron separado.Posteriormente (sic) in blankets viegas (sic), penetrating into the Ford Fiesta ... ordering Castillo Quero, they were dumped at the site do not see anybody and stick them know not to fire the bad treatment ... Before gluing machine gun fire with the C. companions Guardia spent two magazines of 30 rounds each of the bodies in combination with the fuel tank of the Ford. With nothing else is off a great friend of Vds is currently Guardia Civil but not a murderer. I do not identify one thing because it would be timely for me "
But the most important and illuminating document of what happened in the case came to Almería Mañas family in the form of anonymous letter, three years after the murder of his son and that the Supreme Court upheld the sentence of 24 years in prison against Lieutenant Colonel Castillo Quero, 15 for Lt. Gomez Torres and 12 for the guard Fernández Llamas.
In the anonymous letter, written by a civil guard of the headquarters of Almeria, is detailed in detail the number of atrocities committed against the three innocent young people and the total members of the Guardia Civil, with name and last, who participated in the coven, " My dear family, with the respect they deserve Vds I turn to tell the following fact respect to the strange circumstances of the misfortune of buestro (sic) son and comrades who died in the hands of the murderers of command of this city. "
The anonymous caller, who discovers that 'e oday (1984) is Guardia Civil, but not murderer' Mañas family tells the circumstances under which her son died and his companions: "They were taken in the same barracks Casafuerte vehicles where they were interrogated, Castillo Quero thereupon ordered that they must be subjected to club and asked for volunteers. "
And among the volunteers, according to the anonymous, left: 'J . M., Belongs to the Information Service After the sergeant C.. Another P Another guard, the guard F., also for Information on the Service. These were the three murderers of buestro (sic) son ... . " None of the guards was tried and convicted by the Court of Almería as the perpetrators of the murder of Manas and friends.
After the torture came the deaths: "A principle l gave a great beat, especially at the guard C.., Losing consciousness. Then they killed him with a pistol each reciver (sic) separately. Subsequently, the embolvieron (sic) in blankets viegas (sic), penetrating into the Ford Fiesta, in the back seat and ordered Castillo Quero they were dumped on the site that no one saw them and stick them know not to fire the ill-treatment. "
The Civil Guard anonymous far as to tell in his letter that the murderers of giving name, used the money they carried the victims to buy the gasoline to set fire to the Ford Fiesta with three bodies inside ' Before gluing machine gun fire with fellow guard C. spent two magazines of 30 rounds each of the bodies in combination with the fuel tank of the Ford, immediately afterwards with the lighter to set fire to gasoline that spilled from the tank, adding it had in the can apart. "
The "Case Almeria" today
Notwithstanding denounced the letter in detail, with names, no other guard was tried and convicted by the Court of Almería as perpetrator of the murder of Manas and friends. In fact, as of today, 30 years later, there are 8 Civil Guards have not been tried: Sergeant Rafael Cañadas Pérez, Antonio González Hueso Sergeant, Corporal William Visiedo Beltrán, Guardia Civil Fenoi Eduardo Rodriguez, Sergeant Juan Sánchez Cabrera , Angel Ojeda Guerrero Civil Guard, Civil Guard Antonio Pavón Merino, Second Civil Guard Juan Martínez Castro.
Quero Castillo entered the prison of Guadalajara in October 1985 military garrison from the Castle of Santa Catalina (Cádiz ). Three years after third grade entered the prison and in October 1992 after serving three-quarters of his sentence, left prison in Córdoba probation. He died a natural death on 3 April 1994 at his home in Cordoba .
Families of Juan Mañas has asked several agencies and on several occasions that his son and his two companions are recognized as victims of terrorism but have always received no answer from all the bodies that have been run for over 20 years .
With the silence and the pain still today. This democracy-in this case as in others, also gives for more.