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EDUCATION AND COEXISTENCE 32 EXHIBITION AT THE NICOLÁS SALMERÓN IN DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY AND COEXISTENCE The Councillor-President of Chamartín district, Yolanda Estrada, also stressed the importance of preserving collective memory, recalling that “some wounds know nothing of calendars”. Estrada ar- gued that victims must never be forgot- ten and called for young people to learn what happened. “A democracy that for- gets risks forgetting the value of what victims defended: freedom, democracy and coexistence,” she said. Similar messages came from the Com- munity of Madrid’s Deputy Minister of Justice and Victims, CarmenMartín Gar- cía-Martos, and the Director General of the Office for Support to Victims of Terro- rism, Montserrat Torija Noguerales, who reaffirmed their institutions’ commitment to remembrance, education and lasting re- cognition of victims. After the addresses, the exhibition’s cu- rators, Manuel Aguilar and Inés Gaviria, gave a guided tour of its 17 panels and other exhibits. The event also included broad institu- tional representation. Those attending included the Head of the Civil Guard’s 1st Zone, General Francisco Almansa; the Head of the Traffic Division, Ge- neral Javier Molano; Traffic Division Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Herrera; the Director General for Penitentiary Institutions, Ángel Luis Ortiz; the Director General for Domestic Poli- cy, Carmen López; the Director of the Mutua Madrileña Foundation, Lorenzo Cooklin; the Director of the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism, Florencio Domínguez; and the Mana- ging Director of the Victims of Terro- rism Foundation, María Zarauz Representatives of victims of terrorism associations and foundations and Madrid City Council, members of the regional Assembly and numerous victims of terro- rism also attended. They included several people injured in ETA’s attack in Plaza de la República Dominicana, whose presen- ce gave the event particular symbolic and emotional significance.