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La Retuerta I (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). Seven people were murdered on 4 August 1936 at this bend on the old highway to Madrid. Detained in Ponferrada, the seven prisoners were told that they were going to be transferred to León.Cementerio de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Valladolid (2016). A newspaper clipping dated 6 August 1936 with a report on the Tour de France was found in the decomposed jacket of a man aged 55 to 60. The cemetery may contain up to ten mass graves. So far 228 bodies have been recovered from four graves.

La Retuerta II (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). The bodies of the seven, murdered on 4 August 1936, who included José Gallego Redondo, 23, a footballer with the Ponferradina Sports Club, were thrown to the bottom of the valley.

The bodies of the seven, murdered on 4 August 1936, who included José Gallego Redondo, 23, a footballer with the Ponferradina Sports Club, were thrown to the bottom of the valley. The other victims were Jerónimo Álvarez Pacios, 28, Ramón Fernández Pérez, 25, Eliseo Cobo Gómez, 32, José Monje Hernández, 25, Florencio González Cañueto and Ramiro Llaguno Gutiérrez.

30 November 2016
La Retuerta II (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). The bodies of the seven, murdered on 4 August 1936, who included José Gallego Redondo, 23, a footballer with the Ponferradina Sports Club, were thrown to the bottom of the valley.

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