The Town Hall of Sueca will erect a commemorative pantheon in the space of the municipal cemetery's mass grave, with capacity to accommodate the remains of 54 Francoist victims.
The Town Hall of Sueca will construct a commemorative pantheon in the space that until now occupied the mass grave of the municipal cemetery. The aim is to dignify the memory of those executed and repressed during the Civil War and to provide them with an appropriate burial.
Works will begin shortly and the design has been agreed upon with the victims' families. The councillor for Democratic Memory, Sergi Tomàs, highlighted that the pantheon “will represent a place of justice and dignity, a space of reparation tailored to the memory that the people who were executed and their families deserve.”
For his part, the mayor of Sueca, Julián Sáez, emphasised the institutional commitment to democratic memory: “From day one, the current municipal government has fought firmly to settle a historical debt of our town with the repressed and their families. Thanks to the collaboration between the Valencia Provincial Council and the Town Hall, we will achieve a dignified rest for those who suffered repression and we will offer their descendants a place to remember them solemnly.”
Tomàs and Sáez explained that the new pantheon will have the capacity to accommodate the remains of the 54 Francoist victims murdered between May and July 1939 and exhumed from the mass grave in Sueca to undergo anthropological and genetic identification studies in Madrid.
The Municipal Cemetery of Sueca will host the commemorative event for the 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Paris next Saturday, August 22, where the role of anti-fascist fighters and their struggle for freedom in Europe will be particularly remembered.
Organised by the Coordinator of Associations for Memory, the event held every summer pays tribute to the repressed of the Civil War and to the 22 Valencian soldiers of ‘La Nueve’, the legendary Spanish company that contributed to the expulsion of the Nazis from the French capital.
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