It is an event that that is held every summer, in memory of that the tragic day of August 25, 1938, political and social organisations gathered on Sunday at the Monument to the Man of the Sea in Torrevieja to preserve and pay tribute to the memory of the 19 civilians killed 86 years ago by Italian fascist aircraft during the Civil War.
It was a gathering that included the reading of poems and a manifesto. The event, which was also attended by many residents and tourists, ended with a floral offering, the casting of carnations into the sea in memory of each of the victims, after the reading of their names.
As every year, a bouquet of flowers was placed at the entrance to the port, the point in Torrevieja that recorded the highest number of fatalities, “people who were just waiting to receive a ration of fish,” it was said.
The memorial was attended by the socialist spokesperson for Torrevieja, Bárbara Soler; the spokesperson for the PSOE Orihuela, Carolina Gracia; the provincial deputies Francis Rubio and José Antonio Amat; the socialist senator Ana Martínez Zaragoza and the secretary of Democratic Memory of the PSPV, Toñi Serna.
Bárbara Soler said that at the municipal plenary session she will be raising the subject of a permanent memorial to those who died, which the previous Valencian government had promised to place in the port, taking advantage of the remodelling works.
