SPAIN-FRANCO-BABIES-TRIAL

Ines Madrigal, a railway worker who heads the Murcia branch of SOS Stolen Babies association, arrives at a provincial court in Madrid, on June 26, 2018 to appear in the first trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era. Spanish former doctor Eduardo Vela, who worked as a gynaecologist at the now-defunct San Ramon clinic in Madrid, is accused of having taken Ines Madrigal in 1969, now aged 49, from her biological mother, and given her to another woman who was falsely certified as her birth mother and who raised her. In a dark and often overlooked chapter of General Francisco Franco's 1939-75 dictatorship, the newborns of some left-wing opponents of the regime, or unmarried or poor couples, were removed from their mothers and adopted. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP) (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP via Getty Images)