The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced today to the grandson of Pedro Peralta Gil that the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences has identified the remains of his grandfather, found in the Cuelgamuros Valley.

Pedro Peralta Gil, a natural bricklayer from Añón de Moncayo, was murdered on August 11, 1936, when he was 39 years old. Its identification is the third that can be verified of the mortal remains that were extracted from a common pit of Borja (Zaragoza) that, later, in the 50s, were deposited in the crypts of the Valley. The three people already identified from the common grave of Borja are Esteban Giménez Ezpeleta, Juan Chueca Sagarra and Pedro Peralta Gil.

So far, through the Four-Year Exhumation Plan, 14 bodies have been identified in the Cuelgamuros Valley, most of them from Aldeaseca (Ávila).

Torres has reiterated the commitment of the Government of Spain to continue working on the identification of these people without further interruptions, complying with the law of Democratic Memory and responding to the more than 170 requests of family members. “It’s a question of humanity,” the minister said.