For his brother, the time has come to seek out out whether it is true that he was secretly buried in Reus or burned and the ashes thrown into the Ebro. The authorities interrogated him in 1973 for greater than two days and after ingesting acid he died in hospital for 21 days specialists on the bottom are given a interval of two and a half months to hold out the exhumation
The anti-Franco militant Cipriano Martos died in 1973 after ingesting sulfuric acid throughout an interrogation underneath torture. Now, 49 years later, the work to find his stays has begun within the Reus cemetery (Tarragona).
Antonio Martos, brother of the sufferer, in addition to activists from the Catalan and Balearic Network in Support of the Argentine Complaint towards Crimes of Francoism, which helped to denounce earlier than the Argentine courts, in 2014, a case that had remained silent.
The length to find the stays of the final one that disappeared underneath Franco will depend upon the geological or identification difficulties that the specialists within the area might encounter, who give themselves a interval of two and a half months to hold out the mission.
From Granada to Catalonia, in the course of the dictatorship
Martos, born in 1942 right into a household of poor peasants, moved from the Granada municipality of Loja to Sabadell on the age of 27, at which period he joined the ranks of the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist), a cut up of the PCE that advocated intensifying actions towards the dictatorship and didn’t surrender the armed wrestle.
Due to his political and union exercise, he was arrested, tortured and compelled by the Civil Guard to drink a Molotov cocktail, which was launched into his digestive system as if it had been “a fact serum”. The corrosion that it produced within the digestive system prompted his loss of life. pic.twitter.com/I99T7EWL5X
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The social gathering based the Antifascist and Patriotic Revolutionary Front (FRAP), a conglomerate of organizations supervised by the PCE (ml), and Martos was assigned to a clandestine cell in Reus, the place in August 1973 he was arrested by the Civil Guard, who He was interrogated for greater than two days, till the sulfuric acid ingestion compelled him to be urgently admitted to the hospital, the place he agonized for 21 days, with out his household figuring out the place he was.
After he died on September 17, 1973 on the Hospital de Sant Joan de Reus, the Francoist authorities secretly buried Martos’ physique, with out permitting the household to witness the burial – in grave quantity 11, on the sixth flooring of row 67, north facet, of the cemetery- nor take the physique to its land of origin.
The case of Cipriano Martos was included in 2014, on the request of Antonio Martos, within the macro-complaint filed earlier than the Argentine courtroom for crimes of genocide and crimes towards humanity dedicated by the Franco regime.
Find out in the event that they buried him in secret or threw the ashes into the Ebro
It is estimated {that a} hundred extra individuals are buried within the charity grave of the Reus cemetery -not associated to Franco’s repression-, so a part of the earlier work has consisted of perimetering the world of intervention, primarily based on the coordinates of location famous within the official report when Cipriano Martos was buried, in September 1973.
If it’s doable to find and determine the stays of the sufferer, they are going to be delivered to his household, in order that they are often transferred to their land of origin, in Andalusia.
For Antonio Martos, the sufferer’s older brother, “the time has come to seek out out whether it is true that Cipriano was secretly buried right here,” with out permitting the household to see the physique or attend the burial, “or in the event that they burned it they usually threw the ashes into the Ebro”, as he heard say years in the past.
If he manages to recuperate his brother’s stays, Antonio will take them to the Huétor-Tájar cemetery (Granada), the place his dad and mom are buried.