The technicians in charge of exhuming 128 victims in the Cuelgamuros Valley, previously named Valley of the Fallen, have managed to identify the anthropological remains of twelve people. Among them, it has been possible to establish the specific identity of four individuals, according to sources familiar with the work to EFE.
The same sources have indicated that the first identified remains, belonging to box 198, correspond to eleven men and one woman. The exhumations began on June 11.
There are four people who have already been genetically identified: Valerico Canales, Emilio Caro, Flora Labajos and Román González, all of them from the group of the so-called ‘seven of Pajares’, natives of Pajares de Adaja (Ávila) and who were shot during the Civil War. Civil.
“I am very satisfied, fully satisfied because we have reached the goal after 23 years of work on this issue,” said Fausto Canales, son of Valerico Canales, who had been fighting all this time to try to recover the remains.
As he explained, the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, called him personally by phone this Wednesday, as well as the relatives of the other three genetically identified people, to communicate the news.
Canales has informed that they have summoned him and all the relatives related to the ‘seven of Pajares’ on Monday, July 10 in Moncloa at eleven in the morning to give them more details of the work, while at twelve they have been summoned the rest of the relatives until reaching the 128 victims.
In the Cuelgamuros Valley, which changed its name after the recent entry into force of the Democratic Memory Law and is considered the largest mass grave in Spain, there are buried 33,833 remains of victims of both sides of the Civil War.
The forensic exhumation work that began on June 12 affects only the 128 victims claimed by their relatives.
