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Dolores Vázquez es el ejemplo de que basta acusar a un inocente para que nos parezca culpable
A single accusation is enough to brand someone as guilty, it seems. That's why in the front and side photos on police files, no one appears innocent. I would like to find some of my own photos from 52 years ago, taken at the General Directorate of Security in Madrid, the day after the execution of Salvador Puig Antich. At eleven in the morning, I was participating in my first anti-franquist demonstration at the University City, and by one in the afternoon, my fingerprints had already been taken and my photos taken frontally and sideways with a flash that made the face look even more frightened and guilty.
That face is the one I would like to see again, and whether it is still ragged in some file archive, I do not know. What would be the face of an 18-year-old just turning 18, a teenager who had just begun to shave his beard and grow his long hair after being under his father's constant watch, an innocent thrown into the open air and the vastness of a Madrid that seemed more habitable in the dreams of the provincial than the grim reality of post-franquist times.
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