FRANCO COURT GIVES CRUEL SENTENCES TO YOUNG FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS
A special military court in Madrid sentenced three young French anarchists to cruel sentences October 18.
Alain Pecunia, 17, former student at Janson-de-Sailly, was given two prison terms of twelve years and a day each for having set off a small bomb on the ship Ciudad de Ibiza in Barcelona harbor.
Bernard Ferry, 20, a student at Beaux-Arts, d'Aubervilliers, was condemned to thirty years in prison for having exploded a bomb in front _of ‘the Iberia Aviation Co. in Valencia that injured two children slightly.
Guy Batoux, 23, philosophy student at Villefranche-sur-SaSne, arrested in possession of a bomb in Madrid, was condemned to fifteen years in- prison.
The three, who were arrested last April, said that they had not known .. each other before meeting in court. . :
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"The French students maintained an attitude of great dignity throughout their trial, assuming responsibility for their acts and recognizing possible errors in regard to the motives of their actions," reports J.A. Novais, special correspondent of the Paris daily Le Monde -
Guy Batoux asked the court “if torturing an arrested person, as was done in my case, is a general rule among the Madrid police."
‘Bernard Ferry said that when he wes questioned ‘the police submitted him to electric shock treatment.
Alain Pecunia did not indicate whether or not he had been tortured.
Nat the end of the trial," Mr. Novais declares, “the Consul General of France, M. Guy de Coulhac, and a group of Spanish and foreign journalists surrounding him were expelled from the room accompanied by shouts from an upper officer of the army who thought they were not carrying out the order fast enough. We must state that in this small room on the third ‘floor of the building on-the Calle del Reloj ocoupied by general head-. quarters, we have seen more than a hundred persons condemned these past months, most of them youth." .
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