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| Tońi Méndez highlights that "the hopeful and substantial changes" included in the new draft of the Historical Memory law approved by the Government of Spain, as the recognition of the dignity of the victims | The secretary of Democratic Memory of the Executive of the PSRM-PSOE, Tońi Méndez, has ratified the serene, firm and energetic commitment of the party with the recognition of the new places of democratic memory, "unfortunately, still pending to make visible in the Region of Murcia ". This is what Tońi Méndez has indicated after "the hopeful and substantial changes" included in the new draft law on Historical Memory approved by the Government of Spain, such as recognition of the dignity of the victims. Among the spaces pending to be made visible in the Region, the socialist has highlighted the old prison of Murcia, currently undergoing a rehabilitation project already in execution, "which is unacceptable and inadmissible for the dignity of the victims of Francoism, who suffered imprisonment, they died in that jail or left it, to be shot on the walls of the Espinardo Cemetery ". He recalled that 263 Murcians and Murcians died as a result of the inhumane conditions to which they were subjected in this prison: hunger, absolute lack of hygiene, mistreatment, diseases, and that another 552 were executed a short distance and, the vast majority, thrown into a mass grave. In this sense, it has vindicated the old prison building as a place of democratic memory of encounter and harmony for Murcian society.

"Its rehabilitation must be an instrument of a cultural, social and pedagogical nature to learn from what has been suffered and keep us from repeating it, that it welcomes all Murcians and Murcians, and makes us proud as a mature, democratic and plural society." "We ask that the structure and essence of the building be respected as much as possible and that a space for democratic memory be reserved in this first phase.

We cannot admit that the place for memory has to wait for a second stage and is not realized in the first stage.

phase ", has concluded.

Source: PSRM-PSOE