Pamplona (EFE)
They are Antolín Eguiluz Moraza, born in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos), 51 years old; Julio Peña Díez, a native of Valdeprado del Río (Cantabria); and Juan Bautista Sansano Labernia, from Ulldecona (Tarragona), 26 years old. They were exhumed in the grave in the town of Paternáin in July 2022.
After receiving the remains of his relative, Miguel Ángel Eguiluz, Antolín Eguiluz’s grandson, has stated that the relatives have been “sentimentally shocked since the day we were informed of the discovery in the Paternain graves of what in all probability were the remains of our grandfather and great-grandfather. It was a possibility confirmed later in the DNA test.
“Surely from up there his wife, granny Eugenia, and her two children, my father Antolín and my uncle Víctor, will be very happy about it, just like we are, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, that finally, after 87 years, the remains of Antolín will have a just and well-deserved rest”, he highlighted.
Eguiluz has commented that, once this act was finished, the family was going to go to the cemetery and “we will join his remains together with those of his sons Antolín and Víctor”.
Ana Sansano, niece of Juan Bautista Sansano, has shown her gratitude “to the entire group that has participated so that we can find the remains of our family member.” She has been convinced that “the relatives who mourned him at that time are very happy to see that we have finally found him.”
Ana Ollo: “Some cruel deaths”
After handing over the remains of the railway workers to their relatives, the Minister of Citizen Relations, Ana Ollo, stressed that these three workers from the Pamplona North Station were victims of murders “similar to the thousands that occurred in those terrible months that followed the military coup of July 1936”.
Their names, he has indicated, now join those of Gregorio Albo, Manuel Serón, Julio Butrón and Francisco Velaza, who have already been returned to their families in recent months.
At the event, Ollo stated that graves such as those in Paternáin “tell us about cruel deaths by those who believed they were the owners of the lives of others for the sake of a totalitarian project that had started with the uprising of July 1936.”
Of the ten people exhumed in Paternáin last July within the framework of the exhumation program of the Navarro Memory Institute, seven have already been identified by the Nasertic genetic laboratory, precisely the seven whose names and surnames were known. There are still three of which their identity is unknown.
With these, there are already 39 people identified by the DNA Bank since its creation and 349 open files.
Parliamentary representatives, local authorities of the Cizur City Council and the Paternáin Council, the Miranda de Ebro city council, members of the memorialist associations and the technical teams of the Aranzadi Science Society and the Nasertic laboratory, have also participated in this act, as well as relatives and relatives of the victims