ANA MARÍA ORTIZ Madrid
Madrid
Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-14:16
The
Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory
(ARMH) has registered a complaint addressed to the Government after learning of the
visit that President Pedro Sánchez
made this Wednesday to the exhumation work being carried out in the crypts of the
Valley of the Fallen.
.
The ARMH specifically complains that relatives who demand the exhumation of a loved one
have not been allowed
to go to the Valley of the Fallen or witness the work being carried out there with the argument that it could "be dangerous for them." ", as explained by ARMH itself in a statement.
"We have seen in the media that the President of the Government,
Pedro Sánchez
; the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory,
Ángel Víctor Torres
; and the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory,
Fernando Martínez,
have visited the exhumation work that is being carried out. "are being carried out in the crypts of the Valley of the Fallen, something that relatives who want to remove a loved one from there have been prevented from doing with the argument that it
could be dangerous for them
," the complaint states. ARMH registered at 1:00 p.m. this Wednesday after the images of Sánchez dressed in a white jumpsuit were released inside the Cuelgamuros forensic laboratory where the identification work of the remains of those who died during the Civil War was carried out.
"The families who
have been fighting for years to remove
the remains of a loved one learned about the exhumations from the press and were called for the first time to a meeting on July 10, 2023, in the middle of the electoral campaign, at the Palace of the Moncloa", adds the writing.
The ARMH demands from the Government in its letter "
that no one be treated above the victims
and that they know all the information about what is happening in the Valley of the Fallen since they are the promoters of these exhumations, the most affected by what "There it happens that those who have rights regarding what is happening in their crypts."
Likewise, it urges the Government to comply with Order PRE/2568/2011, of September 26, which establishes the
protocol for action in exhumations
of victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship and which states, among other things, that "the excavation procedures will be attended, if they have expressed their wish, by the direct relatives of the victims".
"That the attention to families is
permanent, careful
and always taking into account that they are the priority of these actions and have inalienable rights to know first-hand the entire process and to be present in it whenever they want"