The Spanish government will declassify the 23-F documents tomorrow.
The documentation will be available to "all interested parties" starting this Wednesday, 45 years after the attempted coup.
BarcelonaThe Spanish government will approve the declassification of documents related to the attempted coup of February 23, 1981, this Tuesday. On the 45th anniversary of the events of 1981, the government is taking this step to settle a "historical debt" with the public, as Pedro Sánchez stated in a message on social media. The declassification will take effect this Wednesday with its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE), and from this documentation, through... the Moncloa websiteAccording to Spanish government sources, "Memory cannot be locked away [...] Democracies must know their past to build a freer future," the Spanish president argued in his message to X, where he thanked those who "paved the way." His tweet includes a video of an event last November in Congress featuring writer Javier Cercas, author of the book about the attempted coup. Anatomy of a Moment (2009), asks him to declassify the 23-F documents against the lies spread about those events.
"Declassify everything you can," Cercas asked Sánchez at the time, during the presentation of the fictional series inspired by Cercas's book. "Those who spread rumors will continue to do so, but at least they'll have one less weapon to cling to," the writer argued. Government spokesperson Elma Saiz will provide more details about the declassification this Tuesday at the press conference following the cabinet meeting.
