The exhumation of the grave in the cemetery of El Val (Narón) carried out by the Galician Democratic memory team brings to light important remains.
 

The exhumation work in the Val cemetery (Narón) began on 4 November with the aim of confirming the location of the grave, delimiting its dimensions and its degree of alteration due to the subsequent construction of niches above. The previous historical report indicates a minimum of 51 people, victims of the violence of the coup, who were buried on different dates between the end of August 1936 and 1938. All of them were men and the vast majority were between 18 and 30 years old, sailors, officers and NCOs from the Mariña and executed after being sentenced by a military court to death. Specifically, the events of mid-December, with more than 30 murders, constitute one of the largest collective executions recorded in Galicia.
 

Different phases and dynamics of burials can be observed and, according to the evidence found, they are concentrated under the niches and go to the greatest depth. It should be borne in mind that this information is based on preliminary assessments that require subsequent critical reflective treatment, with a sharing with the team of democratic memory that will see its final form in the reports of the intervention that will be published in the section of the Four-Year Democratic Memory Plan of the website of Names and Voices.

All this indicates that the executioners were fully aware of the magnitude of the crimes they committed and were also responsible for trying to cover their own tracks.
 

Contact with the team 
 

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Professor of Contemporary History, IP of the research group HISTAGRA and director of the Plan de Memoria Democrática en Galicia, 647344112
 

Antonio Miguez Macho, professor at the USC, responsible for the historical studies of the Plan for Democratic Memory, 651696823
 

Conchi López, historian and coordinator of the work of the Plan for Democratic Memory, 605650185
 

Gustavo Hervella, technical manager of the HISTAGRA research group, histagra@usc.es