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Mr President, we are dealing with a very important resolution, because, in the case of Francisco Larrañaga, there is no question that we are dealing with a flagrant miscarriage of justice.
By means of this resolution, we can help to get him released from the prison in which he is unjustly being held, because it is clear that he is innocent.
Ladies and gentlemen, I visited Francisco Larrañaga in the Philippines last week. He has been in that prison for eight years, since he was 19, and he has been on death row for two years. There are 18 000 people in that prison, of whom 1 200 are on death row, and the sentence has been confirmed in 250 cases. They sleep in the corridors because there are not enough cells there.
Furthermore, Paco Larrañaga was sent to that prison without any fair, credible or acceptable trial. He was not allowed a proper defence at the trial. Thirty defence witnesses were not able to speak because the judges did not allow them. When Larrañaga’s lawyers asked that the witnesses and Larrañaga himself be able to speak, they were imprisoned for contempt of court. On one body, which was found disfigured – allegedly one of the victims – no DNA test was carried out. He was five centimetres too short. The family did not recognise him and so on.
As if that were not enough, this case has taken a 180-degree turn this week — as my friend and colleague Antolín Sánchez Presedo has said — with statements by a policeman to the effect that Larrañaga was innocent.
Despite this, the Philippine justice system has unfortunately closed the case. We must therefore support the political groups of Philippine members of parliament who are going to present a draft abolishing the death penalty in that country’s congress, so that that abolition can become a reality and the death penalty in the Philippines can come to an end.
The aim of this resolution is to save a European citizen who is going to be executed despite being innocent. We all know that he is innocent because of the evidence we have seen. I would therefore ask you to support this resolution, in order to make the pardon a reality and so that Larrañaga does not have to spend another second in Philippine prisons."@en1
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