La Línea Council and the Forum for Historical Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar are organising a meeting for relatives of people from the town who disappeared or were shot by Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil war and the subsequent dictatorship. The meeting is to provide information, because soundings are due to begin soon in the cemetery to try to locate mass graves into which the victims were thrown. These are being financed by the Cádiz provincial government, the Diputación. The meeting will take place on Saturday 9 October at 11am, in the Palacio de Congresos.
The Forum calculates that at least 300 people were killed in La Línea between 1936 and 1939, a town which at that time had a population of around 35,000. “As in most of Andalucía, what happened in La Línea was not civil war; it was slaughter perpetrated by the military against defenceless citizens. It was genocide,” said the Forum in a statement.
