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Billy the Child Dies by Coronavirus

  • He has died from the coronavirus, without being tried for the torture he has committed.

07 May 2020 - 12:20
Billy el Niño Audientzia Nazionaletik ateratzen (Argazkia: ElDiario.es)

The deceased, Juan Antonio González Pacheco, known as Billy el Niño, died on Thursday morning after receiving medical discharge Publico.es. Pacheco, suffering from COVID-19, had been hospitalized for several days at the Hospital San Francisco de Asís in Madrid, where he is admitted.

Billy the Child, who had already been a policeman, was an inspector of the Social Policy Brigade in the 1970s. Known for his systematic torture during Franco. The defendant, who died without trial, filed several complaints of torture and ill-treatment during the trial.


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