Baltasar Garzón

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After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first film about the dictatorship, Post and Palacios now tackle one of the most undisclosed chapters of European history: the allegedly organized extermination that took place in Spain under General Franco's fascist dictatorship. To this day no one has been prosecuted for the regime's systematic atrocities. In 2010 victims filed a complaint in Buenos Aires, known as Querella Argentina. By now 24 international arrest warrants have been issued. Franco on Trial puts the Argentinian Complaint in its historic and judicial context by asking will a possible Argentinian trial become the Spanish Nuremberg? As in Franco's Settlers the filmmakers manage to talk both with the victims and the perpetrators.

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Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg? (2018)

Balsar Garzón Real was born in Jaén in 1955. His first destination as a judge was in Valverde del Camino, in the province of Huelva at the age of 26. Subsequently he became a magistrate of the Central Court of instruction of the room 5 of the National Court, a position he would occupy from 1988 to 2012. At that time, except for a one-year hiatus, he was in charge of cases such as crimes of great relevance in Spain like crimes against humanity, drug trafficking, political corruption, and terrorism of ETA, as well as that of the State, known as "dirty war." In 1990 he monopolized all media attention with Operation Nécora. He managed to take the heads of the clans of Galician drug trafficking such as Laureano Oubiña to court. In 2012 he was separated from his judicial career in Spain and since has collaborated as an advisor to different governments in Latin America.