Overview
- The Ministry of Culture, which signed the extinction resolution Tuesday, will file it through the State Attorney to a first-instance court to open the case.
- The government is using the 2022 Democratic Memory Law, which allows dissolving groups that glorify the Franco dictatorship or fail to serve the public interest.
- Reports commissioned from the Foundations Registry and the State Secretariat for Democratic Memory reviewed about 5,500 web texts and media output and found praise for the coup, the regime, and its leaders.
- The case file includes interviews with victims who describe psychological harm from denial of past repression, which officials say shows contempt and humiliation of victims.
- Founded in 1976 with statutes to promote and exalt Francisco Franco, the foundation spends mainly on its bulletin and events, and the ministry says it may also seek temporary limits on activity while the court weighs the case.