Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 2:41:18 GMT -7
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the granting of a subsidy of 665,000 euros to finance the work of exhumation and identification of the remains of the victims of Franco's regime, which have been claimed by their relatives and are buried in the Abbey of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen. The Royal Decree promoted by the Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Carmen Calvo , aims to “promote moral reparation and the recovery of the personal and family memory of the victims who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the Dictatorship”, as stated in the Historical Memory Law. The Government wants to respond.
The private claims of relatives who have requested the exhumation of the remains of their loved ones, as well as comply with the pronouncements of different international organizations, including the Working Group on Forced and Involuntary Disappearances of United Nations. United Nations, regional parliaments and local entities. Letter from Mercedes Abril, victim of Francoism, to Pedro Sánchez “I feel like my Belgium Mobile Number List father is in there” It is estimated that since 1959 , human remains belonging to victims of the Spanish Civil War were transferred from mass graves to be buried in the crypts of the Valley of the Fallen. In total, it is estimated that the remains of more than 33,000 people , from all the provinces of Spain, were deposited in individual and collective columbariums located in the eight cavities adjacent to the transept and the chapels of the Basilica.
Currently these crypts are not accessible , since they were walled up and have remained closed since the time of the burials. The structural analyzes and technical work carried out between 2017 and 2019, to know the state of the enclosure and the interiors of the crypts, have allowed their condition to be evaluated. In this way, the possible opening points of the crypts are currently known , as well as the necessary conditions to allow access to them and the previous works whose execution is essential to make possible the removal of the human remains that have been claimed. The 'ten of Pajares' and box 198 of Cuelgamuros The works necessary to allow the exhumations will not involve any urban planning modification and will consist of making possible access to the interior of the crypts and the execution of the work necessary to ensure the conditions of dignity and respect.
The private claims of relatives who have requested the exhumation of the remains of their loved ones, as well as comply with the pronouncements of different international organizations, including the Working Group on Forced and Involuntary Disappearances of United Nations. United Nations, regional parliaments and local entities. Letter from Mercedes Abril, victim of Francoism, to Pedro Sánchez “I feel like my Belgium Mobile Number List father is in there” It is estimated that since 1959 , human remains belonging to victims of the Spanish Civil War were transferred from mass graves to be buried in the crypts of the Valley of the Fallen. In total, it is estimated that the remains of more than 33,000 people , from all the provinces of Spain, were deposited in individual and collective columbariums located in the eight cavities adjacent to the transept and the chapels of the Basilica.
Currently these crypts are not accessible , since they were walled up and have remained closed since the time of the burials. The structural analyzes and technical work carried out between 2017 and 2019, to know the state of the enclosure and the interiors of the crypts, have allowed their condition to be evaluated. In this way, the possible opening points of the crypts are currently known , as well as the necessary conditions to allow access to them and the previous works whose execution is essential to make possible the removal of the human remains that have been claimed. The 'ten of Pajares' and box 198 of Cuelgamuros The works necessary to allow the exhumations will not involve any urban planning modification and will consist of making possible access to the interior of the crypts and the execution of the work necessary to ensure the conditions of dignity and respect.