Navarro Chueca: If they’re there, we’ll find .
For the third time will try to find the remains of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was executed in Granada the evening of 17 August 1936. The team of historians, archaeologists, geologists and Forensic from various universities in Spain, Argentina and the United Kingdom is led by researchers Miguel Caballero and Javier Navarro.
The first attempt to find the exact place where the poet was killed was based on the Research legendary Ian Gibson, occurred in 2009 ‘was reviewed in Letralia 224 – and it did not work in the exact whereabouts, next to the olive tree where today opens the door a memorial park. The second was in 2014, was conducted by the same current team and came within an inch of the place now expected to start digging.
In this third attempt is being financed by private donors, anonymous some and with full name and address others through a crowdfunding that has gone around the world. To this the unspent amount of 16,500 euros starting the Andalusian amount contributed in 2014.
In this new attempt, Miguel Caballero and the excavation director, Javier Navarro Chueca, expect to hit . “If they are there, we’ll find,” said the second. “We have advanced in the knowledge of the terrain, with a scientific work that has been ruling places.” They must find alterations leading to wells that were used for graves. That implies a ground motion has been, in principle, through geo-radar detected in three different zones on an area of 160 square meters.
Your inquiries and conclusions are based on quite different versions to Ian Gibson. “We take as reference the work of Granada researcher Eduardo Molina Fajardo, published posthumously in 1983,” they argue.
This work is titled The Last Days of García Lorca and, being Falangist, gives importance to the testimonies of those who were associated with crime. It is a work that tries to exonerate his own, but keeping interesting data references regarding specific locations by witnesses directly involved. “Softens some testimony as Captain Nestares, military commander of the area of Víznar those months and friend of Molina Fajardo,” said Miguel Caballero.
2007 Letralia published an investigation of Fernando Guijarro Arcas in which the Spanish writer and journalist says the García Lorca’s body is no longer in the field of Alfacar.
The son of Captain Nestares, Fernando, also retired military officer with the rank of general, now certifies the relevance of the new research. This man, a friend of the archives and history, was taken by some of those who say they handled the exact crime scene. “They were three,” said the general Nestares on file with the County Council of Granada. Half of the squad, according to sources. For Knight, in his book, The 13 last hours in the life of García Lorca , involved in investigations at least six people.
But the military did not make his trip to the site with all of them: “I was taken assault guards say the place where they were killed. One of them was called Antonio Benavides and was someone very boastful. They had not seen him since the night he shot them. They were counting their lives. Were the same who drove from Granada, “said the general Nestares.
According to him, the scene came two trucks from different points. “You brought Garcia Lorca and anarchists banderilleros, Juan and Francisco Cabezas Arcoya Galadí. The other was carrying Don Dióscoro Galindo, Republican symphysis teacher, who was also shot. He was taken from his people and under the command of Juan Luis Trescastros “.
The other members of the platoon were Mariano Wormwood Moreno, Salvador Varo Leyva and champions shot Juan Jimenez Cascales and Fernando Correa Carrasco, armed with Astra pistols 7.65 mm caliber model 902 and model 1893 Mauser rifles, all full of ammunition. About the they recruited for his expertise in the shooting; others, like Benavides, a blood type, a natural murderer according to Knight, is pointed by vice.
Nestares, at that time, when he says that led him to where the seventies had a commander , he managed to convince them for the trust they deserve thanks to his father: “It was with great pleasure. I never saw them again. Nobody in Granada knew who some of them, “he says. According to the general, not the presumed crime, although several versions have bragging to them by the city in the hours after the murder.
Ongoing research differs from Gibson. He relied on the testimony of Manuel Castilla White, alias Manolillo communist supposedly the undertaker, who led the investigator to another place about 400 meters from the current. According to Caballero, this testimony was unreliable, since according to him has been found, Manolillo the Communist reached the site in September and the murder occurred in August. “In those times of scarcity, anyone was willing to give an account for something in return,” riveted Miguel Caballero
Gibson argues instead that does not trust the date that argues Knight. “Carry there a foreigner at that time was to gamble. I think it was yes. He was convinced tell me the truth. Manuel Cuesta told me that at the time Captain Nestares, responsible for the area had forced him to sign an oath that he had not been there “document.
The problem with the new surface excavation, already It is enclosed with stakes, it is that there are about eight meters above ground because of the preparation for building in its day a football field. In the same place where the researchers believe is the pit was a training camp for troops of Franco; has also been practiced there motocross, and wanted to build a sports complex would be surrounded by villas.
Something that once Isabel Garcia Lorca, sister of the poet, insisted on stopping in a letter to then mayor of the town, Juan Caballero Leyva, dated October 13, 1998: “Distinguished friend. It has come to my ears the plan that has the city of Alfacar, which you chair, to make a football field just where they were to fall thousands of men killed, many of them, I suppose, his, fellow Socialists. There is also my brother, Federico Garcia Lorca. “
This is acknowledged in the letter Isabel. And do not stop there pressures. Sends the fax to the then president of the Junta de Andalucía, Manuel Chaves, and everything stops. “The main damage was done,” says Caballero. “It was the explanation, which made the main land was altered with the addition of several meters above. Now we have to find a needle in a haystack. Being left everything as it was originally, with what is called bishop path and 24 steps of what this farmhouse, known as the cucumber, and would have found the remains, “he said.
2007 Letralia published an investigation of Fernando Guijarro Arcas in which the Spanish writer and journalist says García Lorca’s body is no longer in the field of Alfacar.
“The Family of Federico Garcia Lorca, waste of grief over his tragic death that nothing could justify, dug up the corpse of the poet, “said Guijarro Arcas. “They did it two days after his tragic death in August 1936, for transfer to the farm which is still family owned, the Huerta de San Vicente, where he is buried yet”
. Source: El País
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