Salvador Puig Antich was one of the last activists sentenced to death by the Franco regime in 1974
By Catalan News Staff
The Spanish government’s Department of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory has issued a resolution in which it declares the court that tried the anarchist activist Salvador Puig Antich “illegal and illegitimate,” therefore nullifying his 1974 death sentence.
The resolution, dated January 30, 2025, is the end of a process started last fall, when Minister Ángel Víctor Torres gave the Puig Antich family a document in which Salvador was declared “a victim of persecution and political violence.”
The document, published by El Punt Avui, contains an introduction explaining that Puig Antich was part of the Iberian Liberation Movement (MIL) and “suffered persecution for political and ideological reasons during the Franco dictatorship.” When he was arrested on September 25, 1973, a shooting caused injuries to his face and shoulder for which he had to undergo surgery.
