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The Government acquires software for the creation and management of the state DNA bank of victims of the Civil War and the Dictatorship

16/09/2023

The software "Bonaparte" allows to develop a DNA database for the identification of corpses and missing persons, and has been validated in the forensic field in different international scenarios. It is a project of collaboration between the ministries of Justice and Presidency, through the State Secretariat of Democratic Memory, and aims to create and manage the state bank of DNA of victims of War and Dictatorship, in accordance with the provisions of Law 20/2022, of October 19, of Democratic Memory.

Madrid (Spain)

The Democratic Memory Act also provides for the integration into this state bank of the DNA profiles of abducted minors whose complaint has been admitted for the facts set forth in the Act.

"Bonaparte" is a software developed with European public funds that allows the development of a DNA database for the identification of corpses and missing persons, and has been validated in the forensic field in different international scenarios such as the NFI, INTERPOL or ACIC.

It is an advanced system in the creation and automated search of DNA profiles of complex genealogical trees. This is an essential characteristic, since a high casuistry of complex genealogical trees is foreseen, due to the lack of direct relatives.

State and Autonomous Community DNA laboratories involved in democratic memory projects and previously successfully evaluated by the National Commission for Forensic Use, in accordance with ISO 17.025, will have access to the national DNA bank.

About 12 DNA laboratories from the autonomous communities of Catalonia, Valencia, Andalusia, the Canary Islands, Madrid, Aragon, Navarre, the Basque Country and Galicia will participate in the state DNA bank.