Baltasar Garzón’s second trial begins in Madrid

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Baltasar Garzón’s second trial begins in Madrid

Spanish judge accused of abusing his position by opening an investigation into the deaths of 114,000 people under FrancoObservers from the world’s main human rights groups are in Madrid to monitor the second trial of Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón, accused of abusing his position by opening an investigation into the deaths of 114,000 people during the Franco dictatorship. Garzón faces a 20-year ban if, in a case that opens at the supreme court on Tuesday morning, he is found guilty of knowingly twisting the law by investigating Francoist human rights abuses.