Cuevas del Valle (Ávila) (EFE).- The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, considers that, following the current rate of exhumations, the mass graves that still exist in Spain could disappear in a little more than one legislature.
Martínez López made these statements to journalists this Saturday, minutes before attending the Cuevas del Valle City Hall (Ávila) at the act of handing over to their relatives the remains of Marcela Castelo Blázquez, Eladio Fernández González and Segundo González Rodríguez, murdered in October 1936.
In this context, the Secretary of State has explained that “among the priority tasks” of his department is the fact that “there are no mass graves in Spain.”
In this regard, he has indicated that there are currently around 20,000 corpses that remain in the ditches, so that “due to the rhythm of the Four-Year Plan for Graves developed by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, in a legislature or legislature and a half they could disappear mass graves in Spain”.
According to their data, they are currently working on 513 graves in Spain, after finishing work on “Pico Reja”, in the San Fernando cemetery in Seville, where 1,786 bodies have been exhumed.
As Fernando Martínez López has pointed out, “one of the priority tasks of the Government” consists of ending the mass graves that still exist in Spain, as in his opinion is highlighted by the fact that more than 50 percent of the budget of the Secretary of State is intended for this purpose.