Some marble slabs permit us to establish the stays of Cayetano Roldán, the final Republican mayor of San Fernando

The stays of Cayetano Roldán, the mayor of San Fernando (Cádiz) who was assassinated within the months after the 1936 army rise up, have been recognized as one of many 147 our bodies exhumed within the metropolis’s cemetery. Everything, due to the oral story that informed that the politician was surrounded by some marble slabs in order that he may very well be acknowledged sooner or later.

His granddaughter, Ángeles Fernández Roldán, has defined to EFE that this novelty is a part of the outcomes of an investigation promoted by the Association for the Recovery of the Democratic, Social and Political Memory of San Fernando (AMEDE), which has allowed the identification of different two extra folks, Emilio Ordaz and Alberto García, in these instances, due to a marriage ring and a medal round their necks.

“Since I used to be a toddler, they informed me that two girls went to the pit the place they’d thrown my grandfather and surrounded his physique with some stones, some marble slabs, in order that he may very well be recognized,” stated the granddaughter, who additionally assures that the examine anthropomorphic of the bones coincide with the bodily traits of the previous mayor of town.

“Presumptive” exams, not DNA

“They are presumptive exams, each within the case of my grandfather and within the case of the opposite two folks, as a result of the DNA exams are costing loads, because the laboratory in Granada is taking a very long time,” lamented Fernández Roldán, who complains in regards to the This delay accumulates in the one place in Andalusia the place the stays of reprisals may be despatched to be in contrast with that of their family.

Cayetano Roldán, mayor for the Republican Left, was assassinated within the months after the army rebellion, as have been three of his sons, and 16 different left-wing councilors who had been elected within the municipal elections of February 1936. “My grandfather was a a a lot cherished man. He was a health care provider and so they known as him the physician of the poor, as a result of he handled everybody even when he had no cash, since, as a substitute of charging them, he even gave them a number of cash after caring for probably the most needy”, remembers Fernández Roldan.

For her, as for the remainder of the family of retaliated San Fernando councilors, the delay in recovering the our bodies of their family members is taking too lengthy, since lots of their descendants have died throughout this time. “We have been ten siblings, and there have been solely 5 left. For this motive, we requested the Board for velocity, in order that we might bury my grandfather together with his spouse and his kids,” the granddaughter claims.

Fernández Roldán believes that the “presumptive” proof, the looks of the bones surrounded by marble slabs and the anthropomorphic coincidence, must be sufficient for the authority to agree at hand over these stays and be capable of bury them, with out the necessity for DNA proof. as required by legislation.

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