Villalibre de la Jurisdicción I, León (2016). Sixteen-year-old Arsenio Macias was killed 500m from his home, between 1936 and 1937, and buried near an electrical transformer. He was murdered by Falangists because he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his older brother Claudio.Villalibre de la Jurisdicción III, León (2016). Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘ mole’ in the cellar of the family home. He wanted his sisters to avoid the same fate as his brother Arsenio. Before dying of a lung disease, in 1937, he dug his own grave in the cellar.
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción II, León (2016). According to a great-niece of the two brothers, Arsenio was tied to a tree and hacked to death with a machete, between 1936 and 1937. The extension of the N-536 road has made it impossible to find his body.
According to a great niece of the two brothers, Arsenio was tied to a tree and hacked to death with a machete, between 1936 and 1937. ‘They killed him for not betraying his brother,’ she said. The extension of the N-536 road has made it impossible to find his body and so reunite the two brothers in the same cemetery. However, a grave containing the remains of four residents of the nearby village of Priaranza del Bierzo was excavated in this same area in 2009.
