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1000 attend anti-paedophile march in Madrid
By h.b. - Jun 22, 2008 - 9:17 PM
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The head of the march near the Puerta del Sol on Saturday - Photo EFE
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Juan José Cortés was among those to lead the march in demand for more serious sentences against paedophiles.
Around 1000 people took part in the so-called ‘March Blanca’ on Saturday which took over the Puerta del Sol in Madrid on Saturday in demand for harsher penalties for paedophiles in Spain.

Organised by the ‘Protégeles – protect them’ group it was lead by Juan José Cortés, the father of Mari Luz Cortés, the Huelva five year old who is believed to have died at the hands of paedophile earlier this year.

The main banner read ‘Against sexual abuse, we ask for more serious measures and sentences’.

The children defender, Arturo Canalda, also took part in the protest which also so representation from many institutions such as the Madrid regional government and the Madrid Institute for the Family and Child.


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