Survey in Reus to Locate Francoist Mass Grave with Georadar

The Department of Justice has initiated a search on Jacint Barrau street in Reus to find inhumed remains from the Civil War.

Generic image of an archaeological survey with ground-penetrating radar in an urban setting.
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Generic image of an archaeological survey with ground-penetrating radar in an urban setting.

The Department of Justice has carried out a georadar survey on Jacint Barrau street in Reus to try and locate a possible mass grave from the Francoist era, near the former Pich i Aguilera factory.

This operation, conducted on Tuesday, responds to a report submitted by the Reus City Council last December to the Generalitat de Catalunya, which identified four hypothetical grave locations. The search focuses on a spot where a witness placed a well with human remains interred in 1951, in an area that was previously a Francoist concentration camp.

"Now we move from oral testimony to memory and knowledge, with the physical location of the object and the place."

Montserrat Flores · Councillor for Good Governance, Transparency and Participation
Councillor Montserrat Flores emphasized the importance of this intervention, which allows oral information to be transformed into concrete data regarding the location of these remains. The use of georadar facilitates a non-invasive inspection of the terrain, crucial for the precise identification of the grave.