The exhumations in the pit 126 of Paterna contain the bodies of 12 victims of the Francoist repression

The Minister of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality, Rosa Pérez Garijo, has paid a visit to the cemetery to discover the first results of the excavations from pit 126, the largest in the Valencian territory .

Pérez Garijo has detailed that now "they have exhumed two buildings and they have extret the new taüts with the remains of victims of Franco's repression, who have still been deposited in the new grave after a first intervention in 2012".

The head of Qualitat Democràtica has qualified as "molt positius" these first results that demonstrate that the planned work "will be molt bé" and that encourages them to continue exhumant fosses "to recover the remains of all the people who are going to be assassinated to defend our rights and freedoms".

He has recalled that 2,238 people will be assassinated in Paterna during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, to whom he has affirmed that "we have made some progress in the work of exhuming the fosses and following the programming of new interventions" to achieve the The objective that ens marks at the beginning of the legislature "to achieve a free territory of fosses and to repair there a historical debt with the reprisals and their families".

MEMORIAL OF THE VICTIMS

During his second visit to grave 126, Pérez Garijo also spoke about the future Memorial of the Victims that will be located in the Paterna Cemetery "on s'allotjaran the unidentified exhumed remains, there with all those who, have not followed exhumed and identified, his relatives decide his reinhumation", he explained.

Pérez Garijo has pointed out that "he has begun to work for the bidding for the monument city that will allow everyone to know what is going to happen". In addition, he has announced that the agreement with the Paterna City Council to start the work on the Memorial, recently approved by the Council, "is signed en breu".

The exhumations in the pit 126 of the Paterna Cemetery, which are financed by the Department of Democratic Quality, have located two houses, two of which have been exhumed, to proceed with the dam of mostres d' DNA. Així mateix, s'han trobat les nou caixes depositades en la fosa en 2012, s'ha realitzat a revisió de los restantes y s'ha replegat les márses d'ADN.

In the exhumation work, they also found buttons from shirts and pants, sivelles, així with espardenyes and remains of teixits belonging to the victims.

The intervention in the grave 126 of the Paterna cementery intends to locate the victim of 170 victims of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship from five "lootings" of the shootings that are going to occur between the months of August and September 1940 .

The Ministry of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality has allocated 447,700 euros to research work, localization, delimitation, exhumation and anthropological study in the largest grave in the Valencian territory.

This is the second intervention that is carried out in this grave that will be partially intervened in 2012. Some works that will be promoted by the Germans Josefa and Carmen Celda Soler, to exhume the remains of their father, José Celda Beneyto, from Massamagrell, who will be shot on September 14, 1940. Així, during this intervention, he will be able to bury the remains of 42 people, 38 of whom were from Massamagrell, shot on the day that José Celda died.