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Antonio González Pacheco (10 October 1946 – 7 May 2020), known also as Billy the Kid (''Billy el Niño''), was a Spanish police inspector in
Francoist Spain Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...
who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014.
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had called for the indictment. The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him. He competed in a half-marathon in Madrid in 2010. He previously had a pension that was 1.5 times larger than the usual one and he had four medals of honour, which was revealed by a report from the
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in 2018. That year interior minister
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began efforts to determine whether the state can terminate the honours and pensions.


Death

He died on 7 May 2020 from
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain at the age of 73.Muere el torturador del franquismo Billy el Niño por coronavirus


See also

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Political prisoners in Francoist Spain Political prisoners in Francoist Spain were interned in concentration camps, prisons and mental institutions. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, according to the Francoist State's figures, there were more than 270,000 men and women held in prison ...
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Human rights in Spain Human rights in Spain are set out in the 1978 Spanish constitution. Sections 6 and 7 guarantees the right to create and operate political parties and trade unions so long as they respect the Constitution and the law. Healthcare for illegal immigr ...
* Argentina-Spain relations


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