The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, together with the deputy delegate of the Government in Almería, José María Martín, has announced, after the carbon 14 tests carried out, that the bone remains exhumed in the cemetery of San José, in Almería, “correspond to the Martyrs of Freedom, shot in the city 200 years ago, in 1824, a stage that was silenced in Spain during the Franco regime”.
The so-called Martyrs of Freedom 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.