The nightmare of the Martos household, which started in 1973, has ended this Wednesday after genetic and anthropological exams have confirmed that one of many our bodies exhumed in a standard grave within the Reus cemetery (Tarragona) is that of Cipriano, the younger anti-Franco militant who was murdered beneath torture by the Civil Guard half a century in the past. Since his disappearance, his mother and father and his brothers haven’t stopped searching for him.
“My mother and father died with the ache of not figuring out something about my brother,” Antonio Martos, 81, informed NIUS when Cipriano’s supposed mortal stays have been exhumed in January. Today, the Department of Justice, Rights and Memory of the Generalitat confirmed in an announcement that this household from Huétor Tájar, in Granada, can relaxation straightforward as a result of they’ve recovered the stays of their relative whom they’ve looked for for 50 years.Cipriano Martos is among the 20 individuals exhumed and recognized in Catalonia since 2016, when the genetic identification program was created.
The work to open the grave and get well his stays started in December and in January the archaeological workforce confirmed that, of the 41 our bodies exhumed, one was “appropriate” with Martos. Now, as soon as his id is confirmed, his household will be capable of take him away to relaxation perpetually together with his mother and father, within the Huétor Tájar cemetery.
Cipriano Martos, employee and commerce unionist
Martos was a employee and commerce unionist born in Granada who emigrated to Morón de la Frontera (Seville) after which Teruel, Sabadell, Terrassa (Barcelona) and Reus (Tarragona).
He labored as a day laborer, a miner, a textile worker, and a bricklayer; He was affiliated with the Workers’ Union Opposition (OSO) and was a member of the Spanish Marxist-Leninist Communist Party and the Anti-Fascist and Patriotic Revolutionary Front (Frap).
The Civil Guard arrested him on August 25, 1973 after a political propaganda motion in Igualada (Barcelona), and so they took him to the Reus barracks accused of unlawful propaganda and belonging to the FRAP.
He was interrogated and tortured, and two days later, on August 27, he was taken to hospital for having ingested a corrosive liquid referred to as “fact liquid”, a mix of sulfuric acid and gasoline, and on September 17 he died of a inner bleeding.