The Associació de Víctimes de la DANA 29 d'Octubre de 2024 has launched the campaign "Letters to the Constitutional Court," a citizen mobilization action with which it encourages the population to write to the magistrates of the Constitutional Court (TC), in order for them to assess the constitutional relevance of the appeal for protection (recurso de amparo) filed by the entity against the special legal protection (aforamiento) of the former president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón.
As explained by the association in a statement, with this initiative they want to emphasize that behind this appeal "there are hundreds of families who continue to await a full, effective, and privilege-free investigation" into the DANA.
The letters are framed "from institutional respect, trust in justice, and the defense of constitutional values." "This is not a pressure campaign, but an invitation to civic reflection on equality before the law, effective judicial protection, and the fundamental rights of victims," the entity remarked.
In parallel, the association will develop a specific campaign on social media to explain the objective of the initiative and encourage more people to join in sending their letters.
The first audiovisual piece features Toñi García, a relative of DANA victims, who lost her husband and only daughter on October 29, 2024. In the video, she synthesizes the spirit of the campaign with a clear message: "We are not writing to ask for a favor. We are writing because we believe in justice. So that our rights to know the truth are above the privilege of special legal protection."
The president of the association, Mariló Gradolí, maintains that the Constitutional Court "has a historic opportunity to enforce the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution and also a historic duty in the exercise of its functions: to safeguard the right to effective judicial protection of the more than 500 people affected and involved in the case."
Gradolí also emphasizes that "this campaign -- she added -- aims to remind that the Constitution also speaks of victims. The right to effective judicial protection, equality before the law, and access to an investigation without privileges are part of the essential core of fundamental rights that the Constitutional Court is called upon to protect."
Through the association's website, any citizen has the possibility to download a letter template, adapt it with their own text, and subsequently send it to the Constitutional Court.
The entity trusts that this action will serve to promote broader social reflection on the "importance" of justice acting under conditions of equality for all people and recalls that, after the appeal, there are numerous families who continue to demand truth, justice, and reparation. "Because justice also needs to listen to the victims," the association has added.