The Government of Spain, the Junta de Andalucía, the Diputación de Sevilla and the City of Seville have today signed the joint protocol for the exhumation of the Monument pit of the San Fernando cemetery in the Hispanic capital.
The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, has initialled the agreement in Seville, together with the Councillor for Culture and Sport, Patricia del Pozo; the President of the Seville Provincial Council, Javier Fernández, and the deputy mayor/councillor for Finance, Administration and Digital Transformation of the Seville City Council, Juan Francisco Bueno.
It is estimated that in the mass grave there are mortal remains of around 2,600 victims of the war and the repression of the Franco dictatorship. It is not the first intervention in this cemetery, since the administrations that today have signed this protocol had already acted in the pit of Pico Reja, where the remains of 1,786 people could be rescued, who, under the orders of the rebellious lieutenant general Queipo de Llano, were retaliated.