Archaeological digs on the web site of the Alabatera focus camp from the Civil Conflict are aiming to verify the testimonies of witnesses that hundreds of prisoners have been subjected to excessive mistreatment.
Initially a piece camp constructed by the Republic in 1937 for as much as 2,000 Nationalist prisoners, which was by no means stuffed, it ended up being turned by Franco’s forces into the most important prisons of its sort within the months after the battle, holding nearly 15,000 males on the 13-hectare web site, which these days lies inside the municipality of San Isidro.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca Information
