The new cemetery of Sant Francesc, in Formentera, and that of ses Figueretes, in Ibiza, will be the object of excavations to search for the remains of people repressed by Franco’s regime, within the framework of the Tercer Plan de Fosas (Third Graves Plan) promoted by the Balearic Govern.
The Vice President and Minister of Energy Transition, Productive Sectors and Democratic Memory, Juan Pedro Yllanes, and the regional secretary of Productive Sectors and Democratic Memory, Jesús Jurado, presented last Tuesday in Palma the Plan de Actuaciones en Fosas de la Guerra Civil 2021-2022 (Plan of Intervention in Graves of the Civil War 2021-2022) of the Govern, along with the companies that will execute the planned interventions, the Society Aranzadi and Atics.
The excavations in the Pitiusan cemeteries are scheduled for October. In the case of the Ses Figueretes cemetery, the third phase will be undertaken. In Formentera, the work in the new cemetery of Sant Francesc Xavier is one of the most important, according to the Govern in a statement, “because of the number of victims that could be located and the clear delimitation of the areas where exhumation would be feasible. The incorporation of this action within the Third Exhumation Plan is the result of the historical study conducted by Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza within the Second Plan of Graves of the Government, which gives the definitive figure of 58 fatal victims of the prison of Formentera between 1941 and 1942, and defines three places in the cemetery of Sant Francesc where viable interventions can be carried out to locate their remains.
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