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They are the Atocha Lawyers, the ones who have remained in our memory, but now that 45 years have passed since those far-right gunmen decided to break into the labor lawyers' office on Atocha Street to shoot at point-blank range against the nine who were gathered there. . Five were killed, Enrique Valdelvira , Francisco Javier Sauquillo , Javier Benavides , Serafín Holgado and Ángel Rodríguez Leal . Four others were seriously injured, although they survived marked by the horror of that night, the pain of those days, Lola González Ruiz , Miguel Sarabia , Luis Ramos and Alejandro Ruiz-Huerta . Because that night in which death crossed paths with the neighborhood lawyers, those who defended the always trampled rights of the red belt of working-class neighborhoods that surrounded Madrid, was the saddest of a week full of moments in which it seemed that the entire The Transition effort was on its way to falling into a new Franco night without Franco.
A black week, the Seven Days of January that Juan Antonio Bardem would bequeath us , a new tragic week that had begun on Sunday, January 23, with the murder of a 19-year-old student named Arturo Malta Phone Number Ruiz , who was participating in a demonstration demanding amnesty. , that same amnesty that would later also end up benefiting some murderers, members of those Francoist extreme right groups determined to close all the doors that opened towards democracy and freedom. The next day, January 24, the strike at the university was total and a protest demonstration ended with a student hit in the head by a police canister. A student named Mari Luz Nájera who died shortly after at the Concepción Clinic. That morning the GRAPO, who had held the president of the Council of State, Antonio María de Oriol y Urquijo, since December, kidnapped the President of the Supreme Council of Military Justice, Lieutenant General Villaescusa.
But the harshness of an endless day was not going to stop there because three extreme right-wing gunmen who were asking for the transport unionist Joaquín Navarro , broke into the Atocha law office and committed the attack that for years was remembered as Massacre. from Atocha . Joaquín had left the office shortly before and the young lawyer Luís Menéndez de Luarca had not arrived, because he had been busy with his duties as a lawyer for the neighborhood organizations. Both died at the end of last year, within a few hours of each other. The , the Communist Party, the neighborhood organizations, at the center of the obsessions of those who wanted to twist the destiny of Spain again to prevent freedom. Those same organizations that immediately after the attack called for firmness in the fight for democracy, but also for serenity to avoid any apology that would justify a movement of reversal and retreat.
A black week, the Seven Days of January that Juan Antonio Bardem would bequeath us , a new tragic week that had begun on Sunday, January 23, with the murder of a 19-year-old student named Arturo Malta Phone Number Ruiz , who was participating in a demonstration demanding amnesty. , that same amnesty that would later also end up benefiting some murderers, members of those Francoist extreme right groups determined to close all the doors that opened towards democracy and freedom. The next day, January 24, the strike at the university was total and a protest demonstration ended with a student hit in the head by a police canister. A student named Mari Luz Nájera who died shortly after at the Concepción Clinic. That morning the GRAPO, who had held the president of the Council of State, Antonio María de Oriol y Urquijo, since December, kidnapped the President of the Supreme Council of Military Justice, Lieutenant General Villaescusa.
But the harshness of an endless day was not going to stop there because three extreme right-wing gunmen who were asking for the transport unionist Joaquín Navarro , broke into the Atocha law office and committed the attack that for years was remembered as Massacre. from Atocha . Joaquín had left the office shortly before and the young lawyer Luís Menéndez de Luarca had not arrived, because he had been busy with his duties as a lawyer for the neighborhood organizations. Both died at the end of last year, within a few hours of each other. The , the Communist Party, the neighborhood organizations, at the center of the obsessions of those who wanted to twist the destiny of Spain again to prevent freedom. Those same organizations that immediately after the attack called for firmness in the fight for democracy, but also for serenity to avoid any apology that would justify a movement of reversal and retreat.