The so-called Martyrs of Freedom, the Coloraos, were combatants who fought against absolutism in the well-known Ominous Decade, or second restoration of absolutism, corresponding to the period of contemporary Spanish history in the last phase of the reign of Ferdinand VII, after the Liberal Triennium.

The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, together with the subdelegate of the Government in Almería, José María Martín, has made public, after the forensic analysis of the osseous remains exhumed in the cemetery of San José, in Almería, the conclusions of the forensic team.

After the exhumations, the remains found were inventoried and the necessary samples were taken for dating analyses. The conclusions of the forensic team are as follows: all the remains preserved are human; they represent a minimum number of individuals in fair correspondence with the murdered victims, of whom there is documentary evidence; their state of conservation is very poor due to the fact that the remains have been intentionally fragmented to reduce them to shards; and the traceability of the remains seems well established based on the documentary information that is preserved.

Three samples were selected for carbon 14 absolute dating analysis and sent to the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Miami, Florida (United States), which has issued its report dating the remains with an age of 200 years (+/- 30).

It is therefore corroborated that the remains preserved in the cemetery of San José de Almería and examined by the forensic team working with the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory correspond to those sought, with the verified hypothesis of their belonging to the Martyrs of Freedom, shot in Almería in 1824.