“Someone had to apologize, so I did”: these descendants of Francoists who break the taboo of civil war

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Summer Series: Spanish Civil War, Heirs of Silence

In a room at the Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris, a self-managed cultural center in Barcelona, ​​Tomas, 58, attends a political and historical debate. Suddenly he stands up and speaks. Facing him, the sisters of Salvador Puig Antich, a Catalan anarchist activist executed by Franco’s police in Barcelona in the last years of the dictatorship. Turning to the two women, Tomas asks them for forgiveness in the name of a crime that he did not commit, but for which he knows his father is responsible.

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