They find the bodies of 12 victims of Franco in fossa 126 of the Cemetery of Paterna
The exhumations that are being carried out in pit 126 of the Municipal Cemetery of Paterna (Valencia) have so far located the bodies of 12 victims of Franco's repression.
The Minister of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality, Rosa Pérez Garijo, has made a visit to the field to learn about the first results of the exhumation work of Tax 126, the largest in the Valencian territory.
Pérez Garijo has detailed that so far "12 bodies have been located and the nine coffins have been extracted with remains of victims of Franco's repression", which had been deposited again in the pit after a first intervention in 2012.
La consellera Rosa Pérez Garijo visita el cementerio de PaternaEuropa PressOf the twelve bodies, two of which have already been exhumed to proceed with DNA samples.In turn, the nine boxes deposited in the pit have been found in 2012, a review of the remains has been made and the DNA samples have been collected.
In exhumation works, buttons of shirts and pants, buckles, as well as espadrilles and remains of fabrics belonging to the victims have also been found.
The future memorial of the victims will be located in Paterna
In Paterna they were killed 2.238 people during the civil war and the Franco dictatorship.During his visit to pit 126, Pérez Garijo has also talked about the future memorial of the victims that will be located in the Cemetery of Paterna "where the unidentified exhumed remains will be housed," he explained.
The intervention in grave 126 of the Cemetery of Paterna intends to locate around 170 victims of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.Remains from five "sacks" of the executions that occurred between the months of August and September 1940.
The Ministry of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality has allocated 447.700 euros to the research, location, delimitation, exhumation and anthropological study in the largest grave in the Valencian territory.
