Franco’s victims’ families recover remains from mass grave 85 years on

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco. While she hardly knew him, receiving his remains 85 years later has brought some comfort.

The remains of 18 people executed by soldiers and buried in a mass grave during the years of repression that followed Spain’s 1936-39 civil war were returned to their families as the country grapples