The City Council will continue with the exhumation of victims of the Franco regime in the San José cemetery

The new archaeological excavation project of the south grave of patio 1 for the 2022 campaign, with which it is intended to locate and exhume new victims of Franco’s repression between 1938 and 1941.

The archaeological excavation will be coordinated by the municipal archaeologist José María Gener Basallote. Regarding the methodology, all the exhumations will be carried out using archaeological methodology. In addition, the University of Granada will be in charge of carrying out the DNA tests, in order to identify the buried victims.

For this new campaign, an estimated budget of 58,758.53 euros, amount to be covered with two contributions. One from the Cádiz City Council, through a management commission to Cemabasa, for a value of 39,958.53 euros, and the second from a new subsidy of 18,800 euros granted to the Cádiz City Council by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) through of the Democratic Memory Recovery Plan.

Likewise, the councilor for Democratic Memory, Martín Vila, has requested this week to the Provincial Council, through the councilor Lucía Trujillo, their economic collaboration in this new campaign. The provincial institution has promised to meet this request in accordance with the budgetary possibilities for the next fiscal year.

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