Aula Magna of the Cultural Centre La Nau of Universitat de València hosted this Thursday a tribute ceremony for the “10 de Alaquàs” in the 40th anniversary of their detention. In the session participated eight of the prisoners, and representatives of political parties and of the civil society. The table was lead by the principal of Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo. Mònica Oltra and Antonio Montiel also attended the act.
The presentation was in charge of the journalists Emilia Bolinches and Adelaida Ferrer. It also took part the writer Joan Francesc Mira, president of the Cultural Action of the Valencian Country, who co-organised the event.
On 24 June of 1975, the police interrupted a meeting called by the Comissió Pro Estatut, which used to take place the House for Spiritual Exercises of the Purísima d’Alaquàs. The meeting was driven by Vicent Ventura. The ten prisoners were Laura Pastor, Joan Josep Pérez Benlloch, Vicent Soler, Francesc Xavier Navarro, Josep Corell, Ernest Lluch, Carles Dolç, Francesc Candela, Josep Guia, and Carlos Manuel Martínez Llaneza. Of them, Francesc Candela and Ernest Lluch have died (murdered by ETA).
The attendees were arrested and brought to a Law Enforcement court, where they were charged with an offence of unlawful association. According to the judicial documentation, the meeting had the objective of constituting the Democratic Council for the Valencian Country with the idea of creating an autonomous government. On 12th July 1975, “Las Provincias” published an accession document with the prisoners, signed by 93 university professors, among them Manuel Sánchez Ayuso, José María del Rivero, Manuel Broseta Pont, Amando de Miguel, Ferran Domingo, Manuel Sanchis Guarner, Aurelio Marínez, Rafael Ll. Ninyoles, Josep Vicent Marqués, Damià Mollà, Víctor Fuentes, Josep Lluís Blasco, Alfons Cucó, Celia Amorós, Pedro Ruiz Torres, Juan Martín Queralt, Vicent Llombart, Emèrit Bono, Segundo Bru, Clementina Ródenas, Luis Espinosa, and Carmen Alborch.
The cause was filed by execution of pardon of 25th November 1975, five days after Franco’s death.
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