"I went out for a run through the Retreat and at about 8.30 pm on Wednesday I saw that there were several people looking inside a container. When I returned, they were still there. I approached and saw that they were plates with slides». Many?

The container was flush.

The neighbor of the Madrid neighborhood of Retiro, who has preferred not to give his name, has told EL MUNDO that there were slides and also photos on paper in that container next to the headquarters of

Cambio 16

, on Calle Menorca, 3, in Madrid.

The publication was

a reference since the last years of the Franco regime and the first years of the Transition

.

It was chaired by Juan Tomás de Salas, a man with an outstanding, bold and courageous personality.

Over time,

Diario 16

emerged from that head

.

The news began to spread through social networks since the neighbor who saw the images told a woman about it and she let it be known to Paco Gómez, a photography enthusiast who is determined that this country has an organization that houses funds with images of public or private institutions so that they are not lost.

"I don't know where those photos have ended up, maybe in the Pinto landfill," he

told this newspaper.

Paco Gómez assured, and so it can be appreciated, that the name of Cambio 16 appeared on the cardboard frame of the slides.

“Today morning [he refers to Thursday], the container was still there.

Then they threw the construction material on top,

tiles, wood, rubble.

At two in the afternoon the container was gone, there was another empty one, "added the anonymous neighbor.

Plate of slides of the wedding of Cristina de Borbón and Iñaki Urdangarín, recovered from the garbage.

In some of the images, policemen appear in front of the facade of the Congress of Deputies next to the words congress sessions December 82. «There were also

photos of the wedding of Infanta Elena and Iñaki Urdangarin

. And others about movies, television, Culture. They may have digitized them before, "added the citizen who reported the finding to raise awareness of the loss.

"Above all, they were photos from the 90s. The oldest I saw may be from 1982," added the anonymous man. Among the images that Paco Gómez sent to this newspaper

is Landelino Lavilla, who was a deputy and president of the UCD, as well as other politicians from the same formation, such as Fernando Abril Martorell and Marcelino Oreja.

And you can read about the plastic "Congress 11-12 DEC 1982." And, next to it, on another paper also glued to the plate: "Unión Centro Democrático" .

And you can also see the signature of the photographer Elio Burgallo on the cardboard of the frame of some of the slides.

In others you see what could be a demonstration.

And next to them, you can see a man in a blue shirt, a red beret, looking ahead, carrying a Spanish flag with the pre-constitutional harrier.

Rafael Trapiello, son of the writer Andrés Trapiello, was also one of those who most enthusiastically denounced the event.

He reminded this newspaper that

this August part of the archive of Dr. Gregorio Marañón was found in the Rastro

.

The finding corresponded to Paco Gómez.

And, in addition, he wants to draw attention to the existence of the so-called Photography and Image Center Platform, which seeks to preserve heritage.

Many are the photographers who subscribe to this objective, among them the work of Cristina García Rodero, a Fine Arts scholar and member of the prestigious Magnum Agency, stands out.

So that what happened on Calle Menorca does not happen.

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