“There are few buried there.” This was the cry he heard while visiting the area where the mass graves are located in the Víznar ravine, in Granada, where the mortal remains of a relative are found. At the same time, the individual stuck a hiking stick in his leg and hit him while threatening to kill him, a brutal beating for which he had to be hospitalized for injuries.
The attack, which has been condemned by the Granada Truth, Justice and Reparation Association, occurs in a context in which the fourth campaign of exhumation of mass graves is being undertaken, work with which the remains of a hundred have been recovered. of reprisals who were murdered at the end of 1936.
This is not the first time that the Association has reported an attack or other acts of vandalism in the area, such as when the bust of the Granada poet Federico García Lorca was destroyed a year ago, or when the signs indicating the existence of the graves appear completely destroyed. . “The extreme right” will not be able to “silence the members who demand justice,” the entity points out.
On this occasion, according to what El Independiente de Granada has reported, the verbal and physical attack occurred last Sunday, February 18, when this relative was visiting the area and was scolded by a person who yelled at him “there are few buried there” while “he hit him.” and stabbed him in the leg with a hiking stick. The events have already been reported to the Civil Guard so that this person can be identified, as reported by the aforementioned memorial association, which considers that this attack should be investigated by the Memory Prosecutor’s Office.
The group considers that two crimes have been committed against the Democratic Memory Law: a crime of apology for the military coup with which he shouted at the victim and another hate crime when he “threatened to kill her while hitting her.”
The association states that “this is not the first time that the extreme right acts in the Víznar ravine”, alluding to the acts of vandalism against the signs that mark the Colonia and the Víznar ravine, declared Places of Memory. “But this time, we are facing a brutal and inadmissible attack since the victim was beaten and had to be admitted with serious injuries to the Traumatology Hospital. For all these reasons, we wish the victim a speedy recovery and we ask the Subdelegation of the Government that this aggression does not go unpunished.”
The Granada Truth, Justice and Reparation Association maintains that these violent episodes against the victims of Francoism and their families have increased since the Popular Party and Vox “refuse to condemn the Franco dictatorship and threaten to repeal the Law of Democratic Memory of Andalusia “.
The spokesperson for the memorial collective, Paco Vigueras, warns that “the threats from the extreme right and the attacks from the extreme right” will not silence them and they will continue to demand “truth, justice and reparation for the victims of Franco’s regime.”
