Martínez has been accompanied by the Deputy Delegate of the Government in Seville, Francisco Toscano, the President of the Deputation of Seville, Javier Fernández; the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Víctor Manuel González; and the General Coordinator of Finance and Citizen Participation of the City of Seville, Pedro Fernando Molina de los Santos.
After the meeting, the Secretary of State explained that this new collaboration will follow the model that has been followed in the works of Pico Reja, in the cemetery of San Fernando, where a total of 1,786 people have been identified, whose identification, he acknowledged, “is not easy”. “We cannot be deceived, because as I tell relatives, after exhumation, identification is around 30% or 35%,” said Martínez, although he has expressed the will of all administrations to solve this problem, since many families are waiting to recover their loved ones to give them a dignified burial. He clarified that the Democratic Memory “is not a question of the left or the right, but of humanity, that anchors its bases in Human Rights and that it is also a requirement to the Spanish state on the part of international humanitarian agencies.”
The meeting dealt with the mechanisms that must be addressed by the institutions to respond to the legitimate demand posed by so many Andalusian families.