Paris remembers seventy-five years of arrest Lluís Companys
An act of the Government Office and the Dignity Commission also calls for papers confiscated by the Nazis in 1940 at the headquarters of the Government in Paris
On June 16, 1940, two days after the entry of the Nazis in Paris were closed two offices that the Government of Catalonia was in the French capital. The documentation was confiscated reach the Spanish embassy Franco and served as the track president Lluís Companys. A month later the Gestapo arrested in Britain, was deported to Spain and shot at Montjuïc. A ceremony at the Museum of General Leclerc and the Liberation of Paris recalls today seventy-fifth anniversary of the only European president killed while internationally denounced the refusal of Spain to return the documents confiscated by the Nazis Catalan Paris.
The history of these 'papers Paris' was hitherto unknown force. When the government of the Generalitat had moved to Paris after the advance of fascist troops in Catalonia, it took part of the documentation. After one year, the threat of Nazi occupation of France pushed former President Josep Tarradellas hide in Saint Martin-le-Beau some of the documents, which in 1980 became part of the Fund Tarradellas File Poblet. The rest of the documentation is that it had been confiscated by the Gestapo after the capture of Paris, in June 1940. The Nazi occupiers then delivered to the Francoist authorities, who in turn deposited the first service Military History Madrid and, from 1993, in the Archives of Avila.
The Dignity Commission, organizer of today's event along with the Government Delegation in France and Diplocat did not know the whereabouts of papers from Paris earlier this year, and in April sent a letter to Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Moreno, asking him to return to the government 'as an act of justice and democratic restoration of an act of violence against a Nazi institution and a tribute to Catalan president Companys, whom the army Spain has a debt as his murder conviction. "