Breaking Spain’s ‘wall of impunity’


Pacheco Yepes (left) and his wife (second from right) holding a banner depicting photographs of other victims outside the courthouse in Madrid. — AFP

JUST months before the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Julio Pacheco Yepes says he was arrested and tortured by police for belonging to a left-wing underground movement that opposed the regime.

Now, nearly five decades on, Pacheco Yepes has become the first victim of the Franco dictatorship to testify before a Spanish judge investigating allegations of torture.

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