They demand from Pedro Sánchez the declassification of documents on the assassination of Lorca
The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory provides a letter from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior from 1965 in which it is admitted that the poet was executed and buried
BarcelonaThe Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has submitted an official written request to the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, demanding the declassification of documents regarding the assassination of the poet Federico García Lorca that the State keeps hidden, on the 90th anniversary of the crime.
The entity provides as documentation a letter with the stamp of the Ministry of the Interior dated July 9, 1965. It is the response to the writer Marcelle Auclair, who at that time was working on a biography of Lorca. The letter, drafted by the Third Brigade of Social Investigation, admits that "forces of the Civil Government" took the poet from the Civil Government headquarters and transported him by car to a place known as "Fuente Grande". It specifies that the data is "confused", but acknowledges that Lorca and another detainee "were shot": "After confessing, as we understand it, he was buried in that area, not very deeply, in a ravine located two kilometers to the right of Fuente Grande, in a very difficult place to locate". The 1965 document highlights that Lorca had been labeled as homosexual: "It is an aberration that was vox populi, but the truth is that he had no prior record in this regard".
It also recalls that Lorca had taken refuge at the home of the Rosales brothers, a well-known Falangist family in Granada, because he was very friendly with one of them, Luis, who was also a poet. "For having hidden him in their home, they were subsequently subjected to harsh reprimands, and even some of these brothers came to run an evident risk of suffering a severe sanction from the governmental Authority, which was avoided by the Granada Falange", the document details.
The letter also indicates that Lorca was considered "a socialist and a Freemason": "The Glorious National Movement caught him in this capital (Granada), where he had arrived a few days earlier from Madrid (where he usually resided). During the first few days, two searches were carried out at his home, which is why, frightened, he took refuge in the house of his friends, the Rosales Camacho brothers, where he remained hidden until the moment of his arrest, which took place during the last days of July or the first days of August 1936".
The details of the arrest
The document details how the arrest took place. It explains that at the Falange headquarters, CEDA deputy Ramón Ruiz Alonso, Juan Trescastro, and other companions, who according to the letter could not be identified, presented themselves. They carried an arrest warrant issued by the civil government against Lorca and, in order to comply with it, they requested Mr. Rosales Camacho to accompany them to his home. When they arrived, they saw a large deployment of Militias and Assault Guards who had surrounded the house, the street entrances, and the nearby rooftops.
The ARMH requests that, on the 90th anniversary of the assassination of Federico García Lorca by a group of fascists, a crime that remains unpunished, the Spanish government declassify all documentation related to the events: "We ask that all documentation that the State hides regarding the crimes of the Franco dictatorship be brought to light, because keeping them secret can only be understood as protection for the executioners and a permanent grievance for their victims".
