Ana María Ortiz Madrid

Madrid

Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-12:43

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Just a few hours after the families of those buried in the Valley of the Fallen registered a complaint through the

Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory

(ARMH) about Pedro Sánchez's visit to Cuelgamuros when they were not had allowed them to go to see how the exhumations were going, the Government has written to them to authorize access.

" All relatives who have submitted the exhumation request are

hereby invited

to visit the forensic laboratory installed in the Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher of the Cuelgamuros Valley, with the aim of being able to gather first-hand information about the circumstances, obstacles and the progress of the work," reads the letter sent to the families this Thursday around 6:00 p.m. and signed by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory,

Fernando Martínez

.

"Throughout this visit, in which they will be received by members of the forensic team that has been working in the crypts since June 2023,

a detailed explanation

will be given about the search operation, and the relatives will have the opportunity to raise any questions. "seem appropriate," the letter details what the visit will consist of, in which interested families are invited to make a request to organize it "in small groups."

The

160 families of victims

who had demanded the recovery of the remains of their loved ones and promoted the exhumations had been asking without success to be allowed access to the crypts since

June 2023

, when the work of disinterment and identification of the victims began. died during the

Civil War

.

"The visit of the President of the Government seems positive to us because it visualizes the waiting time, but we formally requested in June 2023 to go to the Valley and we did not receive a response," says lawyer

Eduardo Ranz

, who represents nine of the families. "In November 23 we raised the complaint with Transparency and we did not receive a response either. We believe that having expressed our discomfort has had the effect of receiving this communication from the Government in which they ask us if we want to go to the Valley," adds the lawyer, who announces that the nine families it represents will request the visit.

"We believe that the visit is part of the reparation. Any family can go to any grave in Spain, but not in the valley," adds Ranz.

The authorization came quickly after the families expressed their discontent this Thursday after the images of Pedro Sánchez and other members of the Government in Cuelgamuros were disseminated. "They have visited the exhumation work that is 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.

", stated in the complaint that the ARMH registered this Wednesday.

"It seems good to me that the President of the Government goes to the Valley of the Fallen and I wish all the parliamentary groups were there. But what does not seem good to me is that the people who have promoted these exhumations have not been allowed to go, who without them

would not "They would never have been done

. There are families who have been fighting for many years. In exhumations, the relatives who are going to be minimally repaired have to be very close and be part of the process," says

Emilio Silva

, president of ARMH.