The household of the anti-Franco militant is ready to search out out the outcomes of the DNA exams collected within the mass grave of the Reus cemetery. The authorities interrogated Cipriano Martos in 1973 for greater than two days and after ingesting acid he died in hospital for 21 daysThe doable stays of the anti-Francoist Cipriano Martos are situated in Reus
“If it is not him in the long run, we’ll take one other setback,” confesses Antonio, the eldest of six siblings, who had barely been with Cipriano for a yr. The solely factor he needs and, for what he has sought all through his life, is that the stays of his brother relaxation with these of his mother and father within the Huétor Tájar cemetery, in Granada.
The two brothers arrived in Sabadell round 1969 as a result of there was no work within the south. “When my brother was murdered, I used to be already right here,” recollects Antonio Martos, who stayed in Catalonia. The passage of time has not erased something from that fateful day: “When I returned from work, my household known as me to inform me what had occurred,” he recounts. The subsequent morning he redialed a telephone that was left for him and, on the opposite finish, his mom answered, who had traveled all evening to find Cipriano. She by no means received to see him, say goodbye, or hear from him once more. “My mom was asking, they made her dizzy and we by no means knew anything.” Antonio assures that not even the screams of her mom, who begged on her knees on the door of the barracks to see her son, moved nobody: “They by no means let her in,” he provides.
Cipriano Martos when he was younger in a photograph stored by the household. On mortgage.
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A yr after what occurred, the household acquired a letter from the Reus City Council wherein they assured that Cipriano was buried in a typical grave within the cemetery. This model damage lower than the one which some buddies of his brother advised him within the days after his loss of life: “They advised me that they’d burned it and thrown it into the Ebro,” he says. The letter allowed them to dream that sooner or later they’d get him out of that place. “I assumed that across the yr 85, when issues moderated, justice could be achieved… I did not suppose it could take so lengthy,” he admits.
“My father and my mom died with the grief of not understanding something about my brother… I hope I do not die with the identical grief,” says Antonio, who confesses that Cipriano’s loss of life marked your complete household without end. “At my age, my solely comfort is to get his stays to relaxation in Granada as a result of little justice might be achieved”, he refers right here to the justice that these chargeable for the loss of life of his brother must pay.
“My brother was a sufferer, he was the noblest of the six and somebody satisfied him to affix the Communist Party…. When they caught him with the cardboard… they took it away. He didn’t commit any crime, ”he recounts. For him, his brother Cipriano went to an organization situated in Igualada to distribute “leaflets” when a type of current notified the Civil Guard…. “and was by no means heard from once more.” Now, if the outcomes of the DNA exams of the stays discovered within the Reus cemetery are from Cipriano Martos, they are going to serve to fireplace him… as they may not, nearly half a century later.