Activist Blanca Serra, Before the Barcelona Public Prosecutor’s Office: “Being a Woman Involves a Very Specific Type of Torture”

Activist Blanca Serra has had to wait almost half a century to be able to denounce the torture she suffered during the transition in the police station of Via Laietana. Serra said Monday before the Public Prosecutor’s Office, that for the first time she has opened a criminal investigation in a torture case in that period. “It has been a very strange situation. She had always been in the accused’s bank and this time I am the accuser... It will co…

This is the first time that a complainant of torture by the Francoist police has declared before the Office of the Public Prosecutor of Memoria Democrática . This was done on Monday by the 81-year-old independent activist Blanca Serra , after the Public Ministry admitted her complaint for physical and psychological ill-treatment in units of the Political-Social Brigade in Barcelona, during her arrest in February 1977, and also in the Directorate…

Visibly nervous and with the help of a walker Blanca Serra has entered the City of Justice of Barcelona to become the first person to testify before the...

Blanca Serra claims that the Via Laietana building is a memory space without a police presence before her statement before the Prosecutor’s Office of Democratic MemoryThe Prosecutor’s Office investigates for the first time the tortures of the Francoist police after the rejection of the judges “Today is a great day for memory.” Visibly excited and supported by a walker, the historic activist of the Catalan independence left Blanca Serra has climb…

Blanca Serra, the first victim of torture by the Francoist police to testify before the Public Prosecutor's Office, has been hopeful...

Blanca Serra is the first to do so, since in July the Prosecutor's Office launched a section specializing in Human Rights and Democratic Memory.