The possible mass grave with the remains of 451 international brigade members is just 12 meters from the future garbage canton planned by the Madrid City Council in the Montecarmelo neighborhood. This has been confirmed by the Urban Planning delegate, Borja Carabante, after what The world publish details of “the geophysical studies” which coincide with the information that EL PAÍS had already provided. “This area is located 12 meters from where the canton is planned to be executed and, therefore, it does not affect or modify the intention of the City Council to execute that canton,” Carabante assured this Wednesday before entering the Cities Forum, which will be celebrates at Ifema.
The person in charge of the Urban Planning Area has also stated that they will give “all the facilities” to the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory to carry out all the necessary surveys and investigations, but that this will not “paralyze the intentions” of the municipal government. to execute the work.
According to the delegate, the report from the General Directorate of Cleaning, “based on three studies,” concludes that “there is an anomaly in the terrain that may be compatible with the pit.” “It doesn’t say that it is in that place, but [sí] “which may be compatible as a consequence of the movement of the substrate that has occurred in that area,” Carabante responded to this newspaper.
The map published by The world shows the location of the possible grave and coincides with the description that sources familiar with the results had given to EL PAÍS. The georadar, which was passed over plot 26.2b, the one selected for the canton, showed that there were earth movements and other indicators that pointed to results “highly compatible” with a mass grave. The area in question covers more than 100 square meters, and is oval in shape. These same sources explained to this newspaper that the report recommended an archaeological study – which involves digging the earth – to confirm if what is there are human bones.
The possible pit may not literally be under the garbage canton, but it is in plot 26.2b, the same one that, according to official documentation from the Urban Planning Area, was requested, “through internal notes of April 26 and May 8, 2023″, to build the canton and a base for the Urgent Cleaning Service (Selur). Almeida, however, went so far as to assure last week that the findings had been made “in an adjacent plot.”
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The No Al Cantón de Montecarmelo platform has accused Cibeles of modifying the canton’s original project to “avoid the pit.” “They have moved the original project by 12 meters to avoid the Historical Memory Law and thus continue with a project that attacks the life of a residential neighborhood,” a spokesperson for the citizen organization assured this newspaper. Carabante has defended in Ifema that what was published today is “the location of the project that is under supervision” of the area.
The news comes a day after it became known that the Association of Friends of the International Brigades had denounced the mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida, and four senior officials of the City Council to the Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged crime of prevarication by “improperly concealing” the content of the report. Almeida described the complaint as “bizarre” and added that the Prosecutor’s Office had “more important things to investigate” than the reports of the memory association, which has warned of the possible presence of the remains of 451 international brigade members in the area.
In Montecarmelo there is concern about the latest news about the canton that residents have opposed since September, due to its proximity to the Alemán School, the Santa María La Blanca school, the Sol Solito nursery school, the Fuencarral cemetery and numerous homes. “It is disrespectful to build a garbage dump 12 meters from the mass grave,” criticized a spokesperson for the neighborhood platform, “they have been teasing the neighbors for nine months and constantly manipulating reality. Today it has been shown that their intention has always been to impose the canton there, behind the cemetery.”
The organization has warned that the area of “high compatibility” with a mass grave may not be the only one that contains possible remains of combatants who fell during the civil war. “No one knows if there are 451 international brigade members there and there are other graves on the plot. It is necessary that they allow the ministry to carry out the tastings to check if there is a grave there or if there are more,” the platform has demanded.
Faced with this, Carabante has responded that he will notify the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory that “he will be able to carry out the analysis and investigation he wants to do where there is a possibility that this grave exists”, although he has not missed the opportunity to remember that the first The permit requested by the company hired by the ministry had been archived because it had not complied with the information period mandated by the Democratic Memory Law.
The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, accused the City Council of using “delay” maneuvers to prevent the Arqueoantro company from entering to carry out the tastings on the land. Martínez warned that, if it is found that there is a grave on the plot, “they will not be able to touch that area.” “Destroying a grave is illegal. And the person who has powers over this issue is the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory,” said the Secretary at the beginning of June after a Territorial Memory Council. On May 30, the Arqueoantro company once again requested authorization from the Madrid City Council. Almost 20 days later, he is still waiting for a response.
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