From now on, the 49th anniversary of the event will be a maximum period of one year to resolve the efforts and explain the Vitalian church where the police killed five employee places.
The official state of Gazette (Boe) publishes the start of the procedure for the statement on Monday as a place of democratic memory of the church of San Francisco, where the tragic events of 3 March 1976 took place in Vitoria.
In the resolution signed by the State Secretary for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, it is explained that the file will be resolved within a maximum period of twelve months.
The text recalls that on March 3, 1976 the police received the order to turn the church out where a meeting of strike was “without recovery in the media” and that a few meters from the temple different workers were reached by rubber balls and gunshots, with the result of three deaths and dozens of which two died later. There is a record of 42 shot wounds, in addition to the five fatalities.
The file pointed out that on March 3, 1976 it is one of the “Unforgettable data for employees from Vitoria, from the Basque Country and throughout Spain.
“The events of 3 March have remained in the permanent memory of the people of Vitoria and symbolize the legitimate struggles of the work layers for improving their living and working conditions, and the very hard repression of the police services against the mobilizations of the workers who are still held in Spain after the death of the Dictator Francisco.
Vitoria-Gastip will remember another year, the massacre of March 3, 1976
As far as the church is concerned, the government resolution emphasizes that it is’ the space of cosiness that the representatives of the employees of Vitoria organized at a time when there was none Political or trade union freedoms And lack the least meeting and association rights. “
“For his symbolic valueFor his deep interest in the imaginary of the working layers, for their expression of the oppression of the dictatorship, because they are a reference of those terrible events and murders, the church of San Francisco de Asís and the events of 3 March 1976 in Vorroria, it deserves to be a place of the democratic memory. “
In addition to the publication of the initiation of the file, last Wednesday, the Minister of Territorial Policy and the Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, confirmed the government’s dedication to allocate 600,000 euros On the monument and explained that the transfer had not yet been carried out because the establishment of a foundation was missing, which has already been switched on.
Source: EITB
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