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Last Saturday, the tribute that the City of Bullas gave in memory of the six bullfighters who were in the Nazi camp of Mauthasen, of which five died in this one, took place.

The tribute was opened by the Councilor for Culture, Antonio José Espín, who explained that the June 2016 plenary agreement was approved, approved unanimously, to remind young people that they were deprived of their liberty and suffered an unjust prison.

Thus, in memory of the six bulleros: Pedro Alfonso Egea Sánchez, Sebastián Espín Requena, José Molina Miñano, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Francisco Valverde Llorente and Antonio Fernández Escámez;

the central garden of Francisco Puerta González Conde Avenue is now called the "Garden of Memory", where a monolith will remember these neighbors.

At the ceremony the Mayor Maria Dolores Muñoz made clear that this tribute honors and recovers the memory of those who directly suffered the injustices and grievances produced for political or ideological reasons, adding that "we try to return the name and with it the dignity of those neighbors of our municipality reduced to a slave life and an unjust dead. "

For his part, the historian Víctor Peñalver, who carried out the investigation to recognize Murcians deported in Nazi concentration camps, wanted to highlight the value of unity among the different political groups to carry out the homage.

The ceremony was attended by the members of the Municipal Corporation, the General Secretary of the PSRM, Diego Conesa;

the Senator of the PP, Severa González;

the Vice Speaker of the Regional Assembly and Deputy for Podemos, María López;

other representatives of political groups in the Region of Murcia, as well as representatives of associations of Historical Memory of Murcia and the relatives of the honorees who received a plaque in which they could read "The City of Bullas in tribute to their neighbors deported to fields of Nazi concentration, Bullas 13-01-2018 ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas