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The municipal plenary has approved the joint motion thanks to which it shows the institutional and public recognition of the City of Murcia towards the deportees in the extermination camps between 1940 and 1945.
Thus, the text approved includes the placement of a monolith in a street or public square in the memory of the victims and the personal tribute of the City Council to Francisco Griguez Pina, originally from the municipality, who was born in 1918 and "still remembers with sadness and He was a victim of the events that had marked the despair, repression and threat of death that should have been the happiest years of his life.He fell, along with other Murcia and deported from other countries, in the most violent clutches of man and was a victim Of the most horrific machine of extermination in history. "
The Mayor thanked investigators Víctor Peñalver, Rufino Garrido, José Luis López Mesa and José Sánchez, among others, the work done.
The motion adds that "it is fair and reasonable, therefore, that this Municipal Corporation, as legitimate representatives of the citizens of Murcia, publicly manifests the admiration and gratitude to those who put their own lives at risk to defend freedom."
"Murcia must pay homage to those who endured extreme suffering, ending the least, while the majority paid with their lives. The victims are all and Murcia wishes to express our support and solidarity with those affected and their families," he concludes. The text approved.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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