The Argentine judge María Servini, who has been investigating the crimes of Franco's regime since 2010, has decided to prosecute former minister Rodolfo Martín Villa for four murders during the early years of the Spanish transition to democracy (known in Spain as La Transición). According to the order, to which several media have had access, the magistrate attributes responsibility to him for the murder of three workers in Vitoria in 1976 and the death of Germán Rodríguez by police gunfire in Pamplona during the Sanfermines of 1978. It is claimed that the former minister occupied "a preponderant position in the hierarchical power structure" under which the deaths at the hands of the police took place, for which he is held ultimately responsible.