Nine bodies shot in the Civil War found in mass grave in Burgos garden

 

Despite the absence of any judge, the bodies of several Guardia Civil killed in Franco’s time are being recovered from a mass grave under the pavement and just a few metres from houses in Espinosa de los Monteros. The Mayor of the town, José Carlos Peña, said that they knew the bodies were there, but until now, they had been left alone. Nine bodies have been identified between the pavement and inside the garden of the house, owned by Ález Hernández. It comes as several local people asked for action to recover their loved ones. The grave contains people killed at the start of the Civil War in October 1936, and in total there could be ‘ten or twenty bodies in two mass graves’. The bodies of four women and a 16 year old boy have been found. The territorial judge, whose responsibility it is to supervise such cases has not even visited the site, despite the fact that some of the skeletons have gunshot wounds. The Supreme Court established last March 28 that it is the territorial judge who should control such excavations and personally go to such graves. So far Espinosa de los Monteros has not seen judiciary at the site.

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