Antonio González Pacheco

Antonio González Pacheco (10 October 1946 – 7 May 2020), known also as Billy the Kid (Billy el Niño^[1][2]), was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014.^[3] María Romilda Servini had called for the indictment.^[4] The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him.^[5]

Billy el Niño
Born	Antonio González Pacheco (1946-10-10)10 October 1946 Aldea del Cano, Spain
Died	7 May 2020(2020-05-07) (aged 73) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Police inspector

He competed in a half-marathon in Madrid in 2010.^[6]

He previously had a pension that was 1.5 times larger than the usual one and he had four medals of honour, which was revealed by a report from the Ministry of the Interior in 2018.^[7] That year interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska began efforts to determine whether the state can terminate the honours and pensions.^[8]

Death

He died on 7 May 2020 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain at the age of 73.^[9]

See also

• Political prisoners in Francoist Spain
• Human rights in Spain
• Argentina-Spain relations

References

1. Heras, Jesus de las (7 June 1979). "González Pacheco, alias "Billy el Niño", un policía estrella". El País.
2. «Facing His Torturer as Spain Confronts Its Past». The New York Times. 6 April 2014.
3. Rafael, Patricia; Yardley, Jim (30 April 2014). "No Extradition for Franco-Era Police Inspector". The New York Times. Madrid. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
4. "Argentina calls for extradition of Francoists over human rights abuses". The Guardian. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
5. "Argentina asks Spain to arrest 20 Franco-era officials". BBC News. BBC. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
6. Hamilos, Paul (8 October 2013). "Alleged Franco torturer found living, and running, peacefully in Madrid". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
7. Junquera, Natalia (26 June 2018). "Franco-era cop accused of torture has four medals that fatten his pension by 50%". El País. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
8. Junquera, Natalia (15 June 2018). "Minister moves to strip notorious Franco-era torturer of extra pension". El País. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
9. Gómez, Pedro; Gil Tro, Toni (7 May 2020). "Muere el torturador del franquismo Billy el Niño por coronavirus". La Sexta Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2024.