The team multidisciplinary Who will be responsible for the exhumation? 128 casualties in Cuelgamuros Valley (renamed Valley of the Fallen) the day started yesterday with a photo of clusters at the bronze door behind the basilica one morning when Francis Etxeberria and Francis Ferrandizmost media experts in the Commission The specimens created for this task were seen in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
The goal is to find 128 corpses found by their relatives in the crypt of corpses Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher and that of holy of holiesdied on both sides of the Civil War, with a vast majority of republican.
A team of 15 people – between archaeologists, forensic scientists, dentists, geneticists and scientific police – is the one who needs to have access to this place to locate this boxing containing the remains of victims, with a labeling indication of your location Origin. The remaining corpses in that area that have not been claimed “remain where they occupy within the area.” columbariumimprove his determination and adequacy,” according to sources from the Department of Presidency, Court Relations and democratic memory.
The work is done in the burial chapel, which houses most of the bodies requested by relatives bottom floor up to consolidate and support each of the five floors of burials.
Then we continue to work on it Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 looking for the same chapel 59 bodies, including those of brothers Manuel and Antonio Ramiro LapenaNatives of Villarroya de la Sierra (Zaragoza), shot dead 1936 by the Francoists and transferred to the valley Calatayudwhich case is the original and obligatory in accordance with a court decision 2016. The rest, until the search is complete, will be covered in a second floor in the chapel of holy of holies.
And when the task is theirs from the start complexitiesprecisely in this part there can be more obstacle because of some humidity that they damaged it in the 90s of the last century Ceiling of the sacristy of the basilica There was then a movement of the remains they redistributed in other ossuaries empty. Thus, those of the first and second levels were distributed among the chapels of the building Virgin of the Pillar –where there were already other remains– those of Loreto and in all three levels Superiors of the saint himself. According to this reassignment, “the same deceased can be in three different places,” he warns Paul LinaresPresident of the Association for the Defense of the Valley of the Fallen (ADVC).
In addition, all the preparatory work carried out in the Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher must be repeated in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, with the aggravating fact that the sacristy which the Benedictines use for their purposes businesses religious.
The relatives received a notification early morningAccording to his lawyer Edward RanzAlthough Silvia Navarro He found out hours earlier through the announcement of this newspaper, among others. The President of the Association of Relatives for the Exhumation of the Republicans of the Valley of the Fallen, apart from the hope given a goal so long awaited, assures that this is the case “Expectation of a change of government”as the result will be long and will go beyond that General elections on July 23. Linares is sure of this delay –there is no deadline— and on a possible head of the PP, which has promised to repeal the Democratic Memory Law, he says he hopes “Anything, but if it depends on Vox, it would already cross a red line.”. “But let’s remember if the Autonomous Community had declared Madrid cultural property we wouldn’t talk about it in the valley,” complains the representative of 268 Families opposed exhumations “out of respect” to their. An ADVC that has “grown in”. six other families in the last few days and who have come to us spontaneous». Among them “an 88-year-old woman from…” Malaga who has his father in the valley».
Linares regrets this “repeated use in elections”, because “in the 2019 elections it was Franco; in those of May 28, Primo de Rivera, and now more Valle: white and in the bottle», but in front of a fait accompli, his wish is to finish as soon as possible. “I wish the remains were there and ended already, We don’t want anyone who doesn’t want to be but the situation is different: a third of the 33,847 Bodies buried in the crypts are found where work has just begun.
The exhumation plan is co-financed 650,000 euros paid for by the government, which warned against trying to create anything “false expectations” about the results, because “it is not an easy task and there is none.” previous nowhere else in the world equivalent. Now is the time seekThe Location the body and the corresponding analysis genetically.