At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday 25 August, on the Hombre del Mar monument in Torrevieja, a gathering will happen to mark the 84th anniversary of the Fascist bombardment on the identical day in 1938 in Torrevieja, which ended with 19 individuals being killed and dozens extra injured.
Throughout the focus, the individuals will throw a carnation into the ocean for every of the victims, whereas studying their names.
As well as, as yearly, a bouquet of flowers will likely be positioned on the entrance of the port, as it’s the level of the municipality that registered the very best variety of civilian fatalities.
As typical, the organisers want to “pay homage to all of the victims of the fascist bombing and proceed to demand the position of a everlasting monolith of their reminiscence; however that we additionally hope it’s going to serve to vindicate reminiscence, justice and reparation for all of the victims murdered and retaliated in opposition to by fascism throughout the Civil Conflict and the a long time of Franco’s dictatorship that adopted.
The teams proceed to affirm that «the Spanish Civil Conflict (1936-1939) was provoked by the Francoist military after the failed coup in opposition to the official democratic authorities of the Second Spanish Republic; a Francoist military that had the army assist from the primary day of each Italian fascism and German Nazism, which allowed the rebels to have essentially the most superior army weapons and bomb total cities that had no army curiosity, for the mere truth of killing civilians, inflicting ache and struggling and thus undermining public ethical.
«On August 25, 1938», they proceed, «Torrevieja was the goal of one in every of these assaults that precipitated 19 deaths and dozens of accidents, the overwhelming majority of them civilians; an indiscriminate bombardment carried out by the Italian fascist aviation “Savoia” on the command of the revolted Francoist military».
Listing of fatalities from the bombing of Torrevieja on August 25, 1938:
- Miguel García Cuello (32 years previous),
- Francisco Hernández Hernández (28 years previous),
- Francisco Desamparado Moreno (22 years previous),
- Antonio Moreno Guardiola (32 years previous),
- Joaquina Antolinos Zapata (32 years previous),
- María Antonia Moreno Antolinos (10 years previous),
- Rafael Clemares Sala (35 years previous),
- Ángeles Cerezuela Guardiola (33 years previous),
- Ángeles Andreu Cerezuela (10 years previous),
- Manuel Andreu Cerezuela (11 months previous) ,
- Anastasio Blanco Ballester (12 years previous),
- Cayetano Sánchez Sanz (9 years previous),
- Francisco Desamparado Sánchez (2 months previous),
- María Quer Piorno (13 years previous),
- Mercedes Martínez Blesa (15 years previous),
- Josefa Alar Linares (61 years previous),
- Concepción Aracil Rives (22 years previous),
- Francisca Vidal Baños (22 years previous),
- Rosario Alonso Mendiluces (age unknown).
