Compensation to victims of the civil war and Francoism by public administrations totals more than 22,000 million euros throughout democracy, with more than 610,000 beneficiaries, according to data from a commission on democratic memory promoted by the Government.
The commission's report, to which EFE has had access, compiles figures provided by the ministries involved (Social Security, Finance and Equality) and the only six autonomous communities that provided data (Catalonia, Navarre, Andalusia, Asturias, Canary Islands and Castilla-La Mancha).
In total, compensation amounts to 22,160 million euros through different regulations promoted at the state level from the amnesty law of 1977 until the end of 2024, with a total of 611,828 beneficiaries.
The report warns that in addition to data from autonomous communities, data from some groups that could not be collected by this commission on economic reparations to victims, contemplated in the democratic memory law of 2022, are also missing.
Non-professional military personnel are the most compensated
The bulk of the compensation corresponds to pensions for non-professional military personnel and their families (9,907 million euros), followed by pensions for mutilated people and relatives (4,078 million) and those for relatives of deceased or disappeared people (4,059 million).
Next are pensions for professional military personnel and their families (3,578 million), compensation for ex-prisoners (397 million) and pensions for the so-called war children (136 million).
Analyze cases such as the Patronato de la Mujer
The commission proposes to promote specific investigations into other groups of victims to determine possible rectifications.
And it cites examples such as women victims of Francoist reformatories managed by the Patronato de Protección de la Mujer, victims of repression for religious belief, people repressed for their sexual orientation or military personnel repressed at the end of Francoism for their closeness to democratic positions.
Commission for reconciliation with the Roma people
EFE has also had access to the conclusions of another of the commissions included in the democratic memory law, on memory and reconciliation with the Roma people in Spain.
In an extensive report, the members of this working group - from ministries, communities, and associations representing the Roma people - denounce the "institutional persecution" exercised against this group over six centuries, since the time of the Catholic Monarchs.
They assure that antigypsyism and the inequalities they suffer persist in areas such as education, employment, housing, or health.
Among the commission's proposals are the approval of a comprehensive law for the protection and reparation of the Roma people, the celebration of a major State act with this same objective, as well as the review of symbols associated with episodes of persecution, such as street names.
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