Villafranca del Bierzo II, León. (2016)

A 28-year-old day labourer with leftist ideas, Inocencio Cristalino García, was buried by neighbours outside this cemetery. On 13 January 1937 he was finished off by the Guardia Civil after he jumped out of the van that was transporting him and leapt from the viaduct of Villafranca in a desperate attempt to escape. It was common practice to bury Republican victims of repression outside the walls of cemeteries, on secular ground.

11 January 2018