In an unprecedented reaction in Madrid, an audience of survivors of Catholic-run institutions under Franco's regime vehemently rejected a call for forgiveness during a speech by the church. For years, they dealt with the trauma inflicted by these institutions, which targeted women and girls deemed deviant. Survivors, like Consuelo Garcia del Cid, described horrifying experiences, and demanded acknowledgment of the systemic abuses. The audience's chants for truth and reparations highlighted enduring societal scars and the struggle for justice regarding these unrecognized atrocities against women.
For decades, many in the audience had grappled with the scars left by their time in Catholic-run institutions; now they were on their feet chanting: Truth, justice and reparations.
It was the greatest atrocity Spain has committed against women, said Consuelo Garcia del Cid, who was drugged by a doctor at her home in Barcelona and taken to a centre in Madrid.
If you were poor, an orphan, if your family faced hardship, if you were a bad student or wore a miniskirt or kissed your boyfriend in a cinema or danced too close—anything was enough.
Survivors, however, describe a reality that was far more brutal.
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