An anti-fascist and neighbourhood activist, she was involved in the citizen calls to tear down the towers of the former women’s prison in Trinitat Vella, where she herself had been imprisoned. The process led to it being torn down in 2009, even though a part of its facilities still stand today to hold young prisoners in the open prison system. The penitentiary was used during the dictatorship to transfer political prisoners, a situation that Victoria herself experienced when she was imprisoned for being a ‘red’ at the tender age of 17. In 2002, she participated in the conference entitled Els camps de concentració i el món penitenciari a Espanya durant la Guerra Civil i el franquisme with the talk Una experiencia inolvidable:  El estado de Excepción de 1969, in which she shared the experiences of her fellow prison mates, fighting women who, like her, fought against the Franco dictatorship.

 

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Barcelona, 1952-2015 ID 4816

An anti-fascist and neighbourhood activist, she was involved in the citizen calls to tear down the towers of the former women’s prison in Trinitat Vella, where she herself had been imprisoned.