He does not have the slightest option of entering the Bilbao city council as a councilor on 28 May, but the presence of Carlos García Julia leading the list of Jones’ Spanish Falange in those elections reflects “errors of the system”. political change. Candidate Garcia Julia was released in November 2020 from prison for more than ten years, specifically for 3,845 days, for participating as a criminal in the Massacre of the Labor Law Firm of Comisiones Obreras, located at number 55 Atocha without the punishment imposed on him for. Street in Madrid on January 24, 1977.
Labor lawyers Enrique Valdelvira Ibáñez, Luis Javier Benavides Orgaz, and Francisco Javier Soquillo, as well as law student Serafín Holgado and administrator Ángel Rodríguez Leal, who belonged to the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and Comisión Obreras, were murdered that morning. Was. , in a massacre in which four more people were injured, and which was one of the turning points of the political transition, marked by the uncontrolled violence of extremists from extreme right-wing parties and various elements of what is now called police sewers. Then they were simply called the police force. During this, the officers supporting the accused in plain uniform drew attention. Among them was Antonio Gonzalez Pacheco, better known as “Billy the Kid”, who recently died.
Garcia Julia regained his freedom in 2020 after being imprisoned again in February of the same year after more than two decades in an undisclosed location. He was to serve 30 years as part of a 193-year sentence for the 1977 crimes, which is the maximum established. ideology radical and authoritarian politics, dissatisfied with the institutional changes taking place in Spain”.
Forty years later, the Provincial Court of Ciudad Real ended more than 3,000 days of incarceration in 1994 by enforcing prison benefits he had received before his escape. This resulted in a measure approved by Judge José Donato, which first allowed the prisoner probation, then allowed him to go to Paraguay, a country where he had been offered a job contract.
The permit was revoked by the National Court, but Garcia Julia did not return, on the contrary, she fled to Bolivia. The co-perpetrator of the Atocha murders was based in Brazil after he had to flee Bolivia, with a false identity, a country in which he had been sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking.
