The March 3 Memorial Foundation will be established on February 15

The Memorial Foundation March 3who will be responsible for promoting the memorial center to those affected by the massacre of March 3, 1976, the following 15 February.

As confirmed by Radio Euskadi, the parties involved in the project (Basque Government, Provincial Council of Álava, Municipal Council and Diocese of Vitoria-Gasteiz) have set a date for the registration of the Foundation before a notary. In addition, they have agreed on the deadlines and budgets for the work on the San Francisco de Asis Church in Zaramaga, where the memorial space will be located.

The diocese will give up the use of the church where the massacre took place, and the Basque government, the church council and the provincial entity will be the ones to provide the funds. three million euros (two million will be paid by the Basque government), which will cost the adaptation of the religious center. By 2024, they will allocate 320,000 euros to cover initial expenses.

According to the economic report It will be 2025 from next year when the works start of the rehabilitation and adaptation of the building, which will culminate in the creation of a memorial space in memory of the events that took place in Vitoria-Gasteiz on that fateful March 3, 1976. Five workers were murdered and more than 100 were injured, most of them from them from gunshot wounds. , for the shots fired by armed police a few months after Franco’s death.

According to the statutes of the Foundation to which Radio Euskadi has had access, the exhibition space will be permanent, but will also include temporary exhibitions, a research and archive center and other activities to justify the workers’ struggle and its role in the history of the struggle. those years.