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The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has decreed the start of the files for the nomination of two public spaces of the municipality dedicated to the memory of Luis Ruipérez Sánchez and Víctor Paredes Saura, respectively.
In accordance with the Honors and Distinction Regulations, this decision will be submitted to public information for a period of one month so that individuals and institutions can adhere or formulate the allegations they deem appropriate.
The announcement was published yesterday on the bulletin board of the municipal website and in the local press and will have until July 18.
LUIS RUIPÉREZ
Luis Ruipérez Sánchez, born in Cartagena on April 7, 1950, was a lawyer and professor in different institutions such as the University of Murcia, the UNED or the School of Legal Practice of Cartagena.
He was a deputy member of the Board of Governors of the Bar Association of Cartagena, he was Dean of the Bar Association of Cartagena and vice president of the Commission of Free Legal Assistance of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers.
He also obtained the Cross to the Police Merit with white badge;
the First Class Distinguished Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort and the Grand Cross of Merit in the Legal Service.
In the political sphere, Ruipérez, was second deputy mayor of the City of Cartagena, in the first democratic legislature from 1979 to 1983 and councilor of Patrimony, Sports and President of the Informative Commission of Health in said legislature.
Later, he was president of the Cantonal Party from 1983 to 1986, when he was part of the opposition as a councilor.
As a great sports fan, Luis Ruipérez was legal advisor of the Cartagena Fútbol Club and the Carthagonova Fútbol Club and the Cartagena Basketball Club, as well as the Speed ​​Circuit Council.
Brother of the California Brotherhood and of the Most Holy Christ of the Flagellation, appointed by the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, participated in the drafting of the Statutes of the latter.
He died on July 30, 2011. The space that will be dedicated to his memory will be a square next to the new Sports Palace.
VICTOR PAREDES
Víctor Paredes Saura, was a neighbor and president of Pozo Estrecho House of the People who interceded and exposed his life to protect and save friends and neighbors from certain death, over political, economic, religious or cultural differences, during the Spanish Civil War.
According to him he said "ideas defend themselves with words and not killing".
Thanks to his intervention, during those years in Pozo Estrecho, there was no record of any assassination for reprisals.
Among his humanitarian actions, which have been reported and documented by his son in the book "Víctor Paredes Saura, President of the House of the People 1936-1939" is the filling of the church of Pozo Estrecho de azúcar to distribute it among the people and distribute ground flour to alleviate hunger.
As a worker in the field in Pozo Estrecho promoted the eight-hour day, he met during his stay in France, and argued saying he gave equal or more than working from sunrise to sunset, as it was until then.
At the end of the Civil War was arrested and admitted to prison, where he was nine months, leaving it thanks to the testimonies of people who he had saved himself from dying.
He died in Pozo Estrecho in 1969, still being remembered in the town his thorough intervention that avoided tragedies and unnecessary suffering in those convulsive years.
For all these reasons and as a tribute to the altruistic actions carried out by the Pozo Estrecho Neighbors Association, he had requested that a public space be dedicated to his memory, which will be located at the confluence of Gallo, Mirlo and Ruiseñor streets,
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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