"We are looking forward to seeing the empty boxes to prove that children have been stolen here"
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- October 20th, 2017
By Vanessa Perondi Follow @ vanessaperondi1
The City Council defends these works that will last for a year and look for the remains of 46 small ones that their parents never could see dead .
In the Cemetery of Cadiz today is spoken in present.
The most immediate present after a past of loneliness, pain and struggle. That of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers of stolen babies, who will record in their mind this Friday, October 20, 2017 as the first day on which the truth about their children can come to light. A historical present because historical is what has happened in the San José cemetery.
Hoe in hand, the archaeologist Jorge Cepillo and other technicians, have begun to dig the land under which one day they said that they were buried these little ones that could not survive but whose parents never could see dead.
There they look for the remains of 46 babies in 44 coffins in which it is the largest exhumation supported by a public administration.
Councilor for Democratic Memory and President of Cemabasa, Martín Vila, wanted to accompany families on this first day of exhumations and explain how the City of Cadiz has fulfilled its purpose of "giving a response to families" and "recovering the truth , justice and reparation. "
An intervention that will last for twelve months, with a grant of 50,000 euros and "is a novelty in Andalusia and probably in the country," taking into account that it will be carried out in a cemetery that is closed, as Chary Herrera , the president of SOS Bebés Robados , who recognized the "nervousness" and almost "disbelief."
"Until we see the hole open we almost will not believe it."
Most cases are prescribed and relatives expect exhumations to show that there are no bone remains of newborns
Their struggle to prove that their children were uprooted to their families, is counted for years. Therefore, "we are very proud that we can break through."
For the visible head of this movement, the exhumations can be the definitive proof for the reopening of the cases, mostly archived, for lack of indications or for criminal prescription.
There are only two, from the years 1983 and 1984, which are now open and are about to run the same fate. "That's why it's so important to start now."
"The cases are prescribed because here they believe that children have not been stolen. We are looking forward to seeing empty boxes because it would be a way to prove it. "
Like that supposedly rests Isidro or Luisa, a baby that Toñi Alcina, his sister, seeks. He or she would be 34 today and his family is clear that he is alive or alive with another family. Toñi was nine years old when he waited in his house for his mother to arrive with a little sister.
"Luisa was going to call her because the gynecologist during pregnancy told her she was a girl." But when he was born, "they told him that he was a boy". Little more they knew of Isidro, the name that they had chosen in case it turned out to be a boy.
"They were forbidden to see the child and told him first that he had died three and a half hours after birth, when another document stated that the child was macerated (dead in the womb)." To her, with the help of the neighbors, she had to dismantle the crib, the bathroom and to save the clothes of the baby. "I remember him perfectly and since then I have a trauma."
So it is not surprising that "today is happy, be sad and I do not know what I want," he confessed.
She and her brother went to the Cemetery on behalf of the family because "my parents are destroyed. You did not have to get to this but, well ... we're here. "
Chari Castro looks for his daughter, Ana Mari, who today would be 41 years old and Toñi Alcina to his brother, Isidro, 34 years old
The intervention is very complicated because the remains that are sought neither are in niches nor in common graves but in graves of 60 centimeters of width and three or four meters of depth.
In these boxes the bodies were buried on top of each other: fourteen in the case of adults or thirty or forty for babies, as explained by the municipal archaeologist Jose Maria Gener.
The burial book of the Cemetery has recorded these burials but, in addition to digging, the technical team has to locate a person among the bone remains of almost forty.
Therefore, they apply a probabilistic study to reduce the registration to five or three remains on which to practice DNA tests.
Families will also have Ana Arazo, a psychologist.
During the year that the exhumation works, he will accompany them. There, in the Cemetery to learn how to manage their emotions and out, with groups of mutual help in which they will share experiences, and with personal interviews that will allow the relatives that "emotional ventilation and that discharge of tension they need."
As Chari still does not believe what is happening. "I always had doubts but I thought I was alone, that was the only one that had happened this until I met Chary" and discovered that like his, there were cases of allegedly stolen babies scattered throughout the province. Helped by Ana, after having suffered an anxiety attack when she stepped on the Cemetery, Chari regains her breath and excited still remembers.
But remember in the present. Ana Mari, her daughter, has completed on October 16, 41 years.
"I'm sure she's alive . "
He had it in 1976, when he was 22 years old.
"I was first-timer and the pregnancy was good. When I arrived they slept and when I woke up I saw my daughter on a small table, it was fine, with good color. "
Already then, it happened as on many other occasions.
"They told my husband that the girl was very ill and they did not let him or my mother come in to see her.
Only if I returned the next day at ten in the morning. When he was, he was gone. " And never again. Her admission to the hospital, her delivery, her daughter's reports ... nothing remained.
"I always had doubts and asked for my record.
Papers came out of when I had diarrhea at age 14, an abortion, the birth of my children but her, as if it had not happened. " But it was a few meters from that cemetery, in the Hospital Puerta del Mar, which for them remains the Residence of Zamacola, where they lost their babies.
The Law of Patrimony will allow, if at all, that this information be public after 50 years of the facts, that is, within 10, but at the moment Eva García Sempere has been able to summarize how the subject was "covered" to avoid any responsibility, not criminal, but even political.
In fact, in the preliminary reports with which the research commission (17 UCD MPs, 10 PSOE members, 2 CPs, 1 Popular Alliance and 1 Catalan Minority, 1 PNV, PSC and Mixed Group , respectively) is "talking about responsible".
Three "outrageous" conclusions
The deputy has been able to transcribe - since she does not have permission to photocopy or photograph the documentation - paragraphs of the police report and the Ministry of the Interior where they talk about those 32 police with disciplinary measures, "which makes clear that it was completely unjustified performance in Malaga ".
But even though the commission of inquiry had such reports, its main conclusion is that there were no political responsibilities.
The other two conclusions, equally "outrageous" for the family, were that Málaga was experiencing a very complicated socio-economic situation that turned people around and turned the blame out of the disturbances to the organizers of the mobilization for urging to carry the flag of Andalusia propitiating the confrontation with the one of Spain, because that soliviantó to the extreme right forcing the police to load up in three occasions, one of which was fatal for Manuel Garci'a Caparrós, that then worked in Cerveceria Victoria and was affiliated to CCOO but above all, an enthusiast in the claim of rights for his land, and for that reason "left loaded with illusion" to the manifestation.
"Why, if the reports speak of police with disciplinary measures, there is no political leader? Did they shoot the air all at once without anyone giving the order? " Eva García Sempere asks , who continues:
"We are talking about the murder of a young man and the first conclusion is that there are socioeconomic problems and that an investment plan is needed. We are buying the silence of the people of Malaga. "
What they expect from the mayor of Malaga
On the other hand, although he has been able to read the names of all members of that commission of inquiry, he has only recognized the names of the two of the PC - Fernando Soto and Jaime Ballesteros - and the popular Francisco de la Torre, mayor of Malaga .
That is why both IU and Podemos, whose parliamentarian Jesus de Manuel has also been at the press conference, have pointed to his political responsibility, which does not mean that they are asking for his resignation, but rather the "timely explanations of why he was silent. that was known or why they came to those conclusions. "
In this sense, after recalling that at the time of the opinion of the commission of inquiry both the PSOE and the PC issued a private vote rejecting that there were no political responsibilities, IU regional coordinator Antonio Maíllo also present at the press conference , has expressed that Francisco de la Torre "has a historical opportunity to explain why", even if the conclusion reached was that "with an incipient democracy, it was better to cover it for the sake of social peace."
The leader of IU in Andalusia interprets that this "pact of silence" due to "they do not want to touch these cases because they break the myth of the transition".
This is intended to "not break that story," but he believes that after access to these minutes has begun to be written another.
"It is the beginning of a story, which comes late, to the shame of our country. And that story begins with a number, the 32 policemen. [...]
The silence that has been for 40 years has been undermined by a thread of dignity to do justice ", has exposed, to remember that the Law of Democratic Memory of Andalusia forces it.
Therefore, beyond requesting access to additional documentation that may not be included in the minutes, IU and We may request the appearance of Eva García Sempere, at the end of this work, in the Committee on Presidency, Local Administration and Democratic Memory.
It will be the first step to request further hearings if necessary and even to explore the legal path "to determine whether the Government of Spain is subsidiary responsibility", which they are convinced and therefore urge, as a first step, "to remove those acts in the public light ".
Jesús de Manuel has emphasized that We can "not renounce criminal prosecution".
At the moment, it has urged to comply with the Law of Democratic Memory of Andalusia and to launch "the commission of truth in which this must be one of the first cases to try to clarify."
That is why he regrets that they have "months waiting for the Andalusian Council of Democratic Memory to be launched."
"No one has ever explained anything to us"
This is the political account of the issue.
The staff is still, 40 years later, chilling, and so do the sisters of the ill-fated trade unionist. They took the witness of her parents, she dead with 45 and him five years later with 55, in this fight to look for the culprits of the crime.
The first thing they regret is that this "silence pact" has continued. His brother was not recognized with the title of Favorite Son of Andalusia until 2013, because IU was in the Government of Andalusia, and "Diego Valderas got what they had been demanding for years and always kept in a drawer." It was the night before this recognition, at the dinner to the honored ones offered by the Junta de Andalucía, when the then president, José Antonio Griñán, agreed with them.
"Because we have never received any president. The first has been Navarra, Uxue Boats.
We are going to try that Susana Diaz receives us too ", says Loli, although from presidency remember that it has met in several occasions with them.
After hearing about this new information on the case, Loli says: "It makes you even more indignant when you learn that they knew perfectly well who they were, but it did not matter if it came to light. In fact, the first few years we could not even say that my brother had been killed by a policeman.
They never gave us an official version of what had happened. " Moreover, the visit of the authorities to Malaga after the events "was to see the wrecks in the windows, because the important thing was that Malaga was beautiful, at the expense of his blood."
Paqui also tries to make memory, because she was a child:
"That day we were told that my brother had had a traffic accident. My father went to the hospital and wanted to recognize the body and even told him that he could not enter.
When they left him and uncovered him, there was no sign of a traffic accident and they told him what had happened.
From zero moment they are trying to cover up what happened.
My brother's clothes, which were the proof of the crime, were handed to my father. They did not even do it because they had no intention of figuring out what had happened.
40 years later we are waiting for someone to contact us and explain it to us. "
He remembers the last hours of his brother: "The day before was Saturday. He began to paint his bedroom and so that night he slept with us because he smelled a lot of paint.
Sunday morning did not finish the job because he wanted to go to the demonstration. He came out full of joy. He was the only one in the family. He never came back. "
The older sister, Puri, then worked in Las Salinas and was not in Malaga when it happened. "I found out on TV, where they said my brother's name. Then I had no chance to telephone or my parents had warned me. Imagine how my return home was. "
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