José María Galante Serrano, best known as Chato Galante (27 April 1948 – 28 March 2020), was a Spanish pro-democracy activist.

Biography

Onetime political prisoner during the

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era. In 1968, he decided to dedicate his life to fight against Franco's dictatorship and was arrested for "illegal association and propaganda". He was 22 at the time. He was incarcerated at the DGS, where he was tortured by

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. In 2010, he decided to participate in the complaint filed against the crimes committed during the dictatorship, with the help of

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. In 2016, this complaint had 311 complainants. He died from

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in March 2020, aged 71.

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