The so-called ‘Les roges del Molinar’, which were Aurora Picornell Femenies, Catalina Flaquer Pascual, her daughters Antonia Pascual Flaquer and María Pascual Flaquer; and Belarmina González Rodríguez were humiliated and murdered by the rebels, for being communists and republicans, on January 5, 1937. The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, paid tribute today, in Palma, to these women victims of Franco’s regime, whose photos were torn by the president of the Balearic Parliament, during a plenary session in which the repeal of the Law of Memory of the autonomous community was voted.

Previously, Ángel Víctor Torres, accompanied by the government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, and the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, made a floral offering, in the so-called Wall of Memory of the Palma Cemetery, to pay tribute to all those men and women who gave their lives for the freedom and constitutional order of the Second Republic. The minister, who announced that this space will be declared a place of memory, explained that in the Balearic Islands “there are already 21 graves that have been opened and 241 bodies found, which are 241 memories rescued from oblivion to which justice is done”.