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Tortured: But In A “Good Mood”!

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Wednesday July 13, 2005 00:29author by SRIauthor email secoursrouge at free dot fr Report this post to the editors

What follows is the translated text of a political prisoner now
incarcerated in a Madrid Gulag. Here David Garaboa recounts for the world
the brutal torture he received, a practiced common by the Spanish State in
the year 2005. This text maybe freely and widely distributed in a guesture
of international solidarity.

Tortured: But In A “Good Mood”!

I was arrested around 20:30 hours between the border of Port Bou (Girona)
and France. After I was asked to produce my documentation, several
national policemen took me to the police station were after refusing to
identify myself with my real name I got hit several times in my face and
kicked in my legs and one side. AS I started to bleed severely through my
nose and mouth, they gave me toilet paper to clean myself and because I
refused to do so, they started to rub it violently around my face. Later
on, appeared another police man in civilian clothes, who will later be the
one who would lead the interrogation in Barcelona, in order for me identify
myself started to hit me in the stomach and in the head. During one of
those hits, his watch broke which was used as an excuse to give me another
beating.

After they changed the plastic tape which they used to hold my hands on my
back for a pair of hand cuffs that they tightened brutally. They threw me
on the ground facing upwards to step on my chest and stomach, a thing that
provoked great pain on my wrists.

Later they told me that they were going to take me to the Province
Information Brigade police station in Barcelona and that if I was going to
keep silent they were going to stop in the woodland of Girona and shoot me.
While in the car they kept assaulting me and when we reached a poorly
illuminated section of the leisure area of the motorway they made me step
out of the car to “take a walk around the woods were nobody would know what
would happen”. As I kept quite they pushed me violently back in the car and
told me that once we get to Barcelona, their superiors will be asking them
for “quick results”.

Once in Barcelona, they put me in a cell and the ones who later will
participate in the interrogations paraded before me. Amongst them, of
course, “the good police man” offered to help me if I was going to talk.
However the first three days on in communication were characterised for the
physical torture: they hit and twisted my penis and testicles, they pulled
my pubic hair and beard with latex cloves and so on.

This time though, different from Port Bou, they were very careful of not
leaving any marks on me. The threatening was also constant and assorted.
They insisted that I would end up talking and added up that: “if we need to
use the bag, the volting horse or the electric trods then we will, and if
we have to hang you by your balls from the ceiling we will also do it. You
must be certain that you are mnot going to come out alive from here without
telling us what you know, we have impunity. For the judges in the National
Audience Chamber you are nothing but a f*cking terrorist, and if a trip-up
and end-up killing yourself in these premises nobody’s going to claim
nothing for it.” And all this combined with the lack of sleep and rest, the
obligation to keep standing up, the humiliations, the insults etc.

In the same way they used the emotional blackmailing and the use of drugs.
And although I refused to accept their food and their drink, except for the
tap water, they opted to spray the floor underneath the door with a liquid
that provoked me hallucinations: I could see my skin tearing apart, snakes
and lizards around the floor, and the walls seemed to adopt different
shapes and relieves, a thing that provoked me a certain paranoia when I
tried to lean on them. I guess that in order to increase the paranoia they
put in the cell a kind of blanket that they inflated from the outside and
that for me had the shape of a cage in which there were several rats and
snakes. I know they were not real because I stamped a chair on
them. Another of the effects that the drugs provoked was disorientation,
dazed condition, slow reflexes and a great dryness in my mouth. Moreover,
they were controlling all my movements and reactions through a camera
placed inside the cell.

Regarding the emotional blackmailing, they pretended to have arrested my
former partner in A Coruna for which they disguised a police woman with a
look-alike hairstyle and clothing. They also tried to make me believe they
had arrested my actual partner, and they threatened me to jail different
friends who didn’t know about my communist militancy under ‘collaboration
with an armed band’ if I didn’t answer each of their questions. Another
trick they used to persuade me was to interrogate me in a room full of
‘trophies’ of my dead comrades assassinated and fallen in struggle.

In the last 48 hours of the five day they had me held, they soften things
down: They stopped hitting me and they aloud me to change my blooded
clothes into clean ones. Maybe it had something to do with it that they
provoked me a sever bleeding in my nose and had to call the emergency
services to take me to hospital on two occasions. What I am convinced of
is that they had orders to take me to the National Audience Chamber without
visible torture marks on me. Although it seemed that the judge Maria
Teresa Palacios didn’t care that they brought me in front of her with
obvious signs of torture and violence on my face as she didn’t enquire
about them. And in the same way that I did in the police station, I
refused to give a declaration.

And it is because in spite of the promises of change and democratic
regeneration of the G.A.L (State sponsored Terrorist Group) I have verified
in my own flesh that torture isn’t disagreeable with ‘the law’. The catch
word seems to be: Torture yes, but not much noticeable. Even though when I
was put in prison I still had the effects of the beatings I received:
serious injuries in my nose, mouth, and left eye swollen, a twisted and
broken tooth, several wounds on my scalp and on my right leg, circulation
problems in my thumb and right hand, and scares on both wrists. Besides
that, I feel well in a good mood and ready to carry on fighting, now in
this front, which are the extermination centres of the fascist Spanish state.

David Garaboa Bonillo
Militant of the Communist Party Of Spain (reconstituted)
Prisión de Soto del Real. Julio 2005.



(((((Narración de torturas al militante clandestino del PCE(r) David
Garaboa)))))

“TORTURADO, PERO CON “CON BUEN TALANTE”
Fui detenido sobre las 20:30 h. en el paso fronterizo de Port Bou
(Girona) Tras pedirme la documentación, varios policías nacionales me
condujeron a la comisaría de la estación, donde ante mi negativa a
identificarme con mi verdadero nombre, me dieron varios puñetazos en la
cara y patadas en las piernas y en un costado. Como comencé a sangrar
abundantemente por la nariz y la boca, me dieron papel higiénico para que
me limpiara, y al negarme a hacerlo, me lo refregaron violentamente por el
rostro. Luego apareció otro policía de paisano, que sería uno de los que
posteriormente dirigiría los interrogatorios en Barcelona, que para que me
identificara empezó a golpearme en el estomago y en la cabeza. En uno de
esos golpes se rompió el reloj, lo que sirvió de excusa para darme otra paliza.

Después me cambiaron la cinta plástica con la que me habían atado las
manos a la espalda por unas esposas que apretaron con brutal fuerza. Me
tiraron otra vez al suelo, boca arriba, para pisarme el pecho y el vientre,
con lo que me ocasionaban un fuerte dolor en las muñecas. Luego me dijeron
que me iban a llevar a la comisaría de la Brigada Provincial de Información
de Barcelona, y que si seguía sin hablar pararían en los montes de Girona
para pegarme un tiro. En el coche continuaron agrediéndome y al llegar a
una zona poco iluminada del área de descanso de la autopista, me bajaron
"para dar un paseo por el monte, donde nadie se va a enterar de lo que
pase". Como seguí sin hablar me volvieron a meter en el coche a golpes
advirtiéndome de que al llegar a Barcelona sus superiores les iban a pedir
"resultados rápidos".

Ya en Barna me metieron en un calabozo por el que comenzaron a
desfilar los que participarían después en los interrogatorios. Entre ellos,
cómo no, el “poli bueno” que se ofreció a “ayudarme” a cambio de que
hablara. Sin embargo, si por algo se caracterizaron los tres primeros días
de incomunicación fue por las torturas físicas: me golpearon y retorcieron
el pene y los testículos, me tiraron de los pelos del pubis y la perilla
con unos guantes de látex y así un largo etcétera.

Eso sí, a diferencia de lo sucedido en Port Bou, se cuidaron mucho
de no dejarme marcas. También las amenazas fueron constantes y de todo
tipo. Insistían en que acabaría “cantado” y añadían: "Si para ello tenemos
que usar la bolsa, el potro o los electrodos, lo haremos, y si tenemos que
colgarte del techo por los huevos también lo haremos; Que te quede claro de
que no vas a salir vivo de aquí sin decirnos lo que sabes, tenemos
impunidad, para los jueces de la Audiencia Nacional solo eres un puto
terrorista, y si en un despiste te suicidas en estas dependencias nadie nos
va a reclamar nada por ello". Y todo esto combinado con la privación de
sueño y descanso, la obligación de permanecer de pie, las humillaciones,
insultos, etc.

Del mismo modo, se emplearon a fondo con los chantajes emocionales
y la utilización de drogas. Y aunque me negué a aceptar su comida y su
bebida, excepto el agua del grifo, recurrieron a rociar el calabozo por
debajo de la puerta con un líquido que me provocó alucinaciones: me parecía
ver como se me agrietaba la piel, veía serpientes y lagartijas por el
suelo, y la pared parecía adquirir extrañas formas y relieves, que me
provocaban cierta paranoia al intentar apoyarme en ella. Me imagino que
para aumentar esa sensación de paranoia, metieron en el calabozo una
especie de manta que hinchaban desde fuera, que para mí adoptaba la forma
de una jaula en cuyo interior había varias ratas y una serpiente. Se que no
eran de verdad porque les estampé una silla encima. Otro de los efectos que
me provocaron las drogas fueron una cierta desorientación, aturdimiento,
lentitud de reflejos y una gran sequedad de boca. Además, pude comprobar
que seguían y controlaban todos mis movimientos y reacciones mediante una
cámara situada en el interior del calabozo. En cuanto a los chantajes
emocionales, fingieron haber retenido a mi anterior pareja en A Coruña,
para lo que disfrazaron a una policía con su mismo peinado y forma de
vestir. También intentaron hacerme creer que habían detenido a mi actual
compañera; y me amenazaron y chantajearon con encarcelar por "Colaboración
con banda armada" a varios amigos que desconocían mi militancia comunista,
si no contestaba "A todas y cada una" de sus preguntas. Otra argucia que
emplearon para persuadirme fue interrogarme en una sala en la que tenían
como “trofeo” las fotos de mis camaradas asesinados y caídos en la lucha.

En las últimas 48 horas de los cinco días que me tuvieron
incomunicado suavizaron bastante el trato: dejaron de golpearme y
permitieron que me cambiara la ropa ensangrentada por otra limpia. Quizá
influyera en ello que me provocaron una enorme hemorragia en la nariz lo
que les obligó a llamar a la Cruz Roja y a llevarme hasta en dos ocasiones
al Hospital para cortarla. De lo que estoy convencido es de que tenían
órdenes expresas de que llegara a la Audiencia Nazional sin marcas de
torturas. Aunque a decir verdad, a la juez Maria Teresa Palacios no pareció
importarle que me presentaran ante ella con evidentes signos de violencia y
torturas en mi rostro, pues nada preguntó sobre ello. Y al igual que había
hecho antes en comisaría, me negué a declarar.

Y es que a pesar de las promesas de cambio y regeneración
democrática de los GALosos, he comprobado en mis propias carnes que las
torturas no están reñidas con el “buen talante”. La consigna parece ser:
tortura sí, pero sin que se note mucho. Aún así, cuando ingresé en prisión
todavía tenía secuelas de los golpes recibidos: lesiones graves en la
nariz, la boca, y el ojo izquierdo hinchados, un diente torcido y
astillado, numerosas heridas en el cuero cabelludo y en la pierna derecha,
problemas de circulación en el dedo pulgar de la mano derecha, y cicatrices
en ambas
muñecas. Por lo demás, me encuentro bien de ánimo y dispuesto a seguir
luchando ahora en este frente que son los centros de exterminio del estado
fascista.

David Garaboa Bonillo
Militante del Partido Comunista de España (reconstituido)
Prisión de Soto del Real. Julio 2005.

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