Seven reprisals recognized in Cáceres, amongst them the daddy of the protagonist of the film “El 47” | Spain | EUROtoday

The skeletal stays of seven individuals murdered by the Franco regime in 1936 have been recognized in Cáceres, after finishing up DNA assessments on kinfolk of these shot victims. The reprisals have been buried in an outdated mine within the Cáceres city of Valencia de Alcántara (5,362 inhabitants), often known as “Terría” about 20 meters deep, in a sealed nicely. The names of those persons are, Amado Viera Amores, then socialist mayor of Valencia de Alcántara, Eugenio Díaz Borja, Juan Pirón Machado, Francisco Refolio Gómez, Antonio Tejeda Fragoso, Julio Tomás Alfonso Pintor and Diego Vital Díaz, who’s the daddy of the driving force of “El 47”, the bus from Torre Baró (Barcelona), a narrative that has just lately been filmed. They have been all murdered in 1936 and their our bodies have been thrown right into a nicely flooded with water. As time glided by, this place was used to dump useless animals and particles, till in 1988 this website was closed with strengthened concrete.

According to the professor on the University of Extremadura and particular person chargeable for the excavation, Julián Chaves, they have been shot due to their sympathy, or presumed sympathy, with the Second Republic, “we remember that at that time, a simple suspicion was enough to be shot.” the trainer says.

In this “Terría” mine, work started in 2017 with the goal of discovering the our bodies of 37 reprisal victims. The work was carried out by learning official paperwork, though the quantity was in the end larger and 49 individuals have been discovered, all males, of whom 12 stay to be recognized. The work that has been carried out throughout this time has been financed by the Provincial Council of Cáceres with a finances of 80,000 euros.

Chaves says that once they reached the our bodies, the stays have been blended collectively, forming a big mosaic. The evaluation of the stays has been carried out bone by bone and the strategy was via a pattern of the skeletal illustration, which was capable of decide which bone belonged to every particular person. Subsequently, the laboratory tried to sequence the DNA of 49 femurs, however a optimistic consequence was obtained from 40. Of the 37 shot with names and surnames, a genetic pattern might be obtained from 11 circumstances, which allowed genetic identification of seven of the victims. victims.

The professor on the University of Extremadura insists that the names of 12 individuals stay to be decided. “The story of a traumatic past is never closed, we are going to look for new niches of documentation to investigate who they may be,” explains the professor. For its half, from the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Extremadura, its president José Manuel Corbacho says that “it is a work against the clock”, of which there’s a lot left to do. “Time is against us, since there are fewer and fewer children and grandchildren of those who have been retaliated against because they have been disappearing,” says Corbacho.

The identification of Manuel Vital’s father, who drove a bus on line 47 in May 1978 to take him to his Torre Baró neighborhood in Barcelona, ​​has been achieved by figuring out him because of the genetic data of his son, Diego Vital Velo. Manuel Vital arrived in Barcelona on the age of 24 after being born within the Cáceres city of Valencia de Alcántara and died on the age of 87 in 2010, with out with the ability to discover out the place his father’s stays have been.

Conchita Viera, daughter of the mayor of Valencia de Alcántara Amado Viera, whose stays have been discovered within the excavations, was current on the presentation of the outcomes. The girl, who has already turned 91 and was left with out her father when she was three, has proven her satisfaction at closing this darkish second in her life. “They told us that a police officer and two Falangists showed up at home to take my father away. They killed him and threw him into the “Terría” mine. Then they evicted us from our personal home,” she says excitedly. Conchita Viera is among the symbols of historic reminiscence in Extremadura, a lot in order that the Cáceres provincial council has created an award together with her identify.

Another mine within the province of Cáceres the place work is being carried out is within the La Paloma mine within the city of Zarza la Mayor (1,134 inhabitants). In that place, excavations needed to cease in May as a result of logistical issues as a result of depth, which is 33 meters. At the positioning it’s anticipated to seek out round twenty our bodies of reprisals; it’s believed that it may home the stays of fifty victims shot in 1936.

According to Professor Julián Chaves, it’s a very tough place, since La Paloma has three very deep mines and has sophisticated terrain, “it is soft, it can give way and you have to act very carefully,” he explains.

This undertaking has a finances of 75,000 euros and in accordance with the president of the Cáceres Provincial Council, Miguel Ángel Morales “it will not end until the bodies are found.” The intention is identical as within the “Terría” mine with DNA assessments with members of the family and analyzed within the Biomics genetics laboratory of the Basque Country.

The Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Extremadura stories that they’re finishing up work in quite a few components of the area, reminiscent of within the south of the province of Badajoz the place Franco’s repression was very harsh. Many have been murdered in several cities reminiscent of Cabeza la Vaca or Fregenal de la Sierra, but in addition in components of the province of Cáceres such because the municipality of Torremenga. There, the president of the entity, José Manuel Corbacho, says that they’ve proof that a number of guerrillas have been shot and buried within the cemetery. “Tastings have been carried out to try to find them but without success, so all the work does not have the same end as what was achieved in the ‘Terría’ mine,” the memorial affiliation stories.