The intervention, conducted on Tuesday, March 31, focuses on four points delimited by a previous investigation by the Reus Archive. Two of these points are on Jacint Barrau street and the other two in the courtyard of the Baix Camp institute, formerly the Escola del Treball.
This search begins after the Reus Archive presented a study to the Generalitat last December, identifying possible locations for the grave. Within two to three weeks, the Directorate General for Democratic Memory will publish a report with the survey's conclusions.
“"We are moving from oral testimony to memory and knowledge, to the physical location of the object and the place."
The main hypothesis is that the well, described in 2001 by a resident of Reus, Antoni Batlle, contains bodies of victims of Francoist repression during the first months of the post-war period. It is believed that prisoners from the concentration camp established at the Escola del Treball on January 15, 1939, who died from mistreatment, were thrown into this location.
Councillor Montserrat Flores, also a historian, has indicated that the victims likely had some 'responsibility' in the Republic. The well's location was pinpointed thanks to an aerial image from a Civil War bombing, which allowed Joan Olivella, Cristian Muñoz, and architect Miquel Pich Aguilera to determine that the well was on Jacint Barrau street and not within the factory complex.
