At the stadium, he put on the Dépor jersey and, when leaving, he changed it for that of the Socialist Youth of the 1930s. Bébel Garciaright winger for Deportivo de la Coruña with a rather left-handed ideology. This is why he was assassinated just 11 days after Francisco Franco’s coup. Today, decades later, the place where the putschists buried him has been located, in La Coruña.
His parents were bleach manufacturers and were responsible for the re-foundation of the PSOE in the Galician city.. “They were a very loved family, they called them ‘the whitened brothers’, they were activists of the Socialist Youth”recalls researcher Rubén Centeno in front of the microphones of laSexta. The war came and the fascists murdered him and several of his brothers. It is not known where they were buried, but Centeno, after searching for the grave of his great-uncle, also shot, found his remains.
After comparing the cemetery register, he explains, he began “to see more than what he had” envisioned in the documents, reaching up to “250 people”. He explains that this discovery “gives an idea of the dimension of what this generation suffered”. This is how Centeno discovered that the San Amaro cemetery in La Coruña is one of the large mass graves of Galiciawhere, among other things, the remains of the Depor player are located.
Just look at the photo above in which a crowd of young anarchists appears on Riazor beach. Most of them were murdered and many -111- were buried in the aforementioned sacred field. Specifically, they are in one of the few areas without a cemetery, in the busy A Coruña cemetery. Centeno explains that “Perhaps this memory was transmitted among people who did not want (…) to be touched”and specifies that they could have been “civil servants”.
Xosé María Palacios’ grandfather was a baker for the CNT union and was one of the young people from La Coruña shot by the Francoists. “When there was a strike, the bakers would make a batch for the poor,” explains Palacios, while ensuring that these actions defined what the union was. Despite this, they killed him for his ideals, just like the footballer.
The athlete was so important to the Galician city that former socialist mayor Paco Vázquez He dedicated a street – “Rúa Hermanos de la Lejía” – in his honor. From now on, in addition to a street, Bebel will be able to have an identified grave, like many others.
