The Barcelona Prosecutor's Office has closed the torture investigation to the activist and philologist Blanca Serra, the first victim who went directly to the Prosecutor's Office for Historical Memory and not to the courtsThus, she is recognized as a victim of Francoism, and this is done for the first time based on the 2022 Democratic Memory Law. Blanca Serra and her sister, the historian Eva Serra – who died in 2018 – were detained at the Via La7 police station in 1982. The investigation concludes that during their arrest in February 1977, they suffered "torture perpetrated in a context of crimes against humanity." The Public Prosecutor's Office adds that the Political-Social Brigade arrested them solely for their political activity opposing the dictatorship and that they "inflicted physical and psychological violence on them to obtain information and a confession, which caused them traumatic aftereffects." All of this occurred within a context of persecution and political repression established by Francoism, the Public Prosecutor's Office adds in a statement.

The philologist Blanca Serra, that with his sister, the historian Eva Serra (who died in 2018), who went to the Via Laietana police station four times—in February 1977, July 1980, December 1981, and March 1982—made it clear this Monday at the City of Justice that she doesn't intend to give up, but also that she's not very optimistic.

If the judges are an insurmountable wall to investigate the crimes of Franco's regime and refuse to listen to the victims, the Prosecutor's Office will do so. For the first time, the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office, together with the Human Rights and Democratic Memory Unit of the State Attorney General's Office, has opened an investigation into the torture carried out by Franco's police in February 1977. This is the complaint filed, in November of last year, by the Via Laietana police station: February 1977, July 1980, December 1981, and March 1982. Blanca filed a complaint with the Barcelona Prosecutor for Human Rights and Democratic Memory, Sara Gómez Expósito. Until then, all the complaints had been submitted to a court.