Cities have heart, arteries, arms and memory.
If the roots are denied the right to become ghosts memory fabric and dirt covered in ghostly places that do not know where they come from or where they roam while the spectral world of manipulation and indifference.
Starting from the very heart of the city and taking one of his main arteries arrived at Cypress Road, the last ride, and from there to the place where survivors boxes stored in their memories.
There is a lot at the municipal cemetery of Alicante has no gravestones or names even though under their homelands lie hundreds of Alicante, many of which (about four) were destroyed on Market soil that May 25, 1938.
was almost impossible to identify most of them.
bombs were ninety-called "revientamanzanas", ie the most rabidly destructive, made three passes, the first reconnaissance and target acquisition, the siren did not sound, the second for birth death and rivers of blood coming down the ravine, the third of grace if there was anyone alive.
The objectives were mainly civilians, away from military element.
On Sunday May 25 will be fulfilled seventy, seventy.
the fascists Savoia Italians under the command of rebel General Francisco Franco took it out on the town with all the cruelty of fascism and irrational hatred.
was without doubt the most terrifying bombardment of all attacks in the city of Alicante, much more, even the so-called eight hours.
More terrifying was so long kept silent about these victims. It was in 1988 when for the first time, is published in the Journal an article Chronicler Information Officer City D. Enrique Cerdan Tato which relates to all the cruelty of reality, what happened that tragic day in May.
return, as all the years, the square of the flowers, the Central Mercado, someone has to pay them the tribute they deserve, year after year. Come back and join us as each year more and more from Alicante, the Platform for Citizen Initiatives Alicante Vivo Cultural Association, political parties, each year.
It is therefore shameful that the same as ordered or consented to this atrocity even today and for breach of the Law of Historical Memory by the City of Alicante, the provincial council and others: Adopted Son of Alicante, Perpetual Honorary Mayor Alicante, Gold Medal of the city, First Gold Medal and Diamonds of the Management Committee of the Bonfires of San Juan, adopted son of the Province of Alicante .
Be consistent in what they can.
The City can not place a plaque in memory of those killed in the bombing of an orderly market and pampered by their own mayor and keep Perpetual swashbuckling awarded the honors are deserved and that force is as follows reading of the minutes of the municipal council of 22 last February, arguing that both the People's spokesperson D. Andrés Llorens Fuster (former President of the Management Committee of the Bonfires of Alicante) and the Mayor of the City Council President D. Luis Diaz Alperi.
In such sessions shall be declared, they and the rest of the group popular with his arm raised, publicly opposed the withdrawal of honorary titles awarded to the Dictator.
And the dead wait.
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