Overview

• The Padrón court formally accepted Manuel Reboiras’s complaint against torture by Francoist police, marking Galicia’s first admitted case on regime crimes.
• Reboiras alleges he endured torture during two arrests on September 28, 1975, in Padrón and June 18, 1976, on Vigo’s Monte O Castro.
• The admission follows a prosecutor’s reform appeal that reversed a December 2024 dismissal based on the statute of limitations.
• Coordinadora Estatal de Apoyo a la Querella Argentina (Ceaqua) hails the decision as a modest advance while noting that over 115 similar complaints have been shelved across Spain.
• Legal experts maintain that crimes against humanity carry no expiration and are urging legislative reforms to end Spain’s impunity policies for Franco-era abuses.