This Monday, forensic work began excavating 128 victims from the Cuelgamuros Valley, and the Gogora Institute estimates that there were more than 300 Basques who were taken there, without identification.
40 families of the Basque Autonomous Community have the right to excavation of their relatives buried in the Cuelgamuros Valley (former Valley of the Fallen), as reported by the Gogora Institute on Monday.
“There are more than 40 families who have waited too long, we hope that this time their wish comes true and they can bring their relatives home,” said Ezenarro.
In total, the Gogora Institute estimated that there were more than 300 Basques that were taken to the Cuelgamuros Valley no identification.
Forensic work to excavate 128 casualties from the Cuelgamuros Valley started this Monday in the crypt of the Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher, on level 0. Work will then continue on levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the same chapel in search of 59 claimed bodies and the rest, until the The search for the 128 bodies will be tackled in a second phase in other chapels of the basilica, sources from the Ministry of the Presidency, Court Relations and Democratic Remembrance have said.
Currently there 45 Basque families that they have expressed their interest in recovering the remains of their relatives from the Cuelgamuros Valley, 40 of which have recognized the right to be exhumed and Gogora has DNA samples from 36 of those families.
Of the 45 Basques buried in the Cuelgamuros Valley, 10 are Republicans, 23 fought on the rebel side, and the remaining 12 are unknown.
Source: EITB
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