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A team of archaeologists from the State Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory began yesterday in the cemetery Zafayona Moraleda work of what can be the first exhumation from reprisals of Franco in the province of Granada. These two resistance fighters, Ricardo Moles Moles and Jose Garcia Munoz, killed by gunfire in October 1950 by the fascist army and the Guardia Civil when they were hidden in the cave of Ahumada, a natural area known as Zafayona Moraleda Mount del Turro. No obstante, los familiares sostienen que ambos guerrilleros "prefirieron suicidarse para no darles satisfacción porque sabían que si los cogían vivos los iban a torturar".
La primeras catas arqueológicas sobre el terreno se llevaron a cabo después de que la familia de Ricardo Moles Moles, que contaba con todas las autorizaciones pertinentes del Ayuntamiento, decidiera ponerse en contacto con la asociación estatal ante el retraso en los plazos que había previsto la propia Asociación de Granada, centrada en los últimos meses en la tramitación de la apertura de la fosa donde supuestamente yacen los restos de Federico García Lorca, entre Alfacar y Víznar.
Ricardo Navarro Moles and his sister Amparo, along with other family members, appeared at the cemetery earlier in the day, a little bleak in the cold and the threat of rain, to witness the work of the archaeological team that recently participated in the opening of a pit in Huelva, and whose association has done in his eight years of existence about 150 exhumations. "We're excited, wanting a quick end because we've been waiting a long time this day," says Richard, who has waited patiently for the evolution of the case opened by Judge Baltasar Garzon against Franco. The family are confident they can close one of many sad chapters of family history, plagued of misery and fear. In addition to the historical documentation that indicates the exact location of the grave, a short distance from one of the walls of the cemetery entrance, has been crucial to the testimony of Joseph Smithies, father of the current mayor and son of reprisals, which for years has been responsible for the cemetery and recalls in detail both the time of capture and the subsequent burial of the bodies, "wrapped in a blanket." José mind that the bodies of the guerrillas had to be buried up to two times because the dogs digging in the area.
The team arrived in the region of El Bierzo Leon and elsewhere in Spain and led the area delimited An initial surface survey without finding reliable evidence of the remains of the maquis. The lack of rain allowed the morning digging two feet deep in a perimeter of about six square meters. The work was resumed in the afternoon, when it appeared the rain, but will have to wait until today to continue the search or, conversely, stop digging at the possibility that the site may not be correct, as explained The team spokesman Santiago Macias. Although the family of José García Muñoz has preferred to stay out of the request for exhumation, the City Council Zafayona Moraleda has undertaken to enable a niche for his remains rest in a dignified place. For its part, the family of Ricardo Moles intend to transfer the remains to the cemetery Albolote, where also lies the mother of the machinery.
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