Overview

• On the eve of the 50th anniversary, Victoria Sánchez‑Bravo visited her brother José Luis’s grave in Murcia before a tribute to the five people shot on September 27, 1975.
• She says a court annulled her brother’s Franco‑era conviction last year, and she credits Spain’s Democratic Memory Law with enabling the clearing of his name.
• Recalling the case, she alleges he was brutally tortured by police agent Antonio González Pacheco, known as Billy el Niño, and that she herself was forcibly removed from the courtroom by him.
• She denounces the military tribunal as illegitimate for a civilian and maintains he was not the gunman, noting he was the only one of the five not accused as a material author and that he was in Mazarrón at the time of the killing.
• The September 1975 executions targeted members of FRAP and ETA and drew widespread protests, and she now calls for formal recognition and school teaching to counter what she describes as a resurgence of fascist sentiment.