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Rouco sees an «error» in the Gijon City Council facilitating the reporting of plaques with Francoist symbolism on buildings from its website
Vox deputies in the General Assembly of the Principality of Asturias (JGPA) Javier Jové and Sara Álvarez Rouco, laid a floral offering on Wednesday at the Jove cemetery in Gijón, in recognition of the 62 Gijonese individuals murdered in that area on August 14, 1936.
They did so as a counterpoint to what they consider «intense activity in homage to the victims of Francoism, and the declaration of various Places of Memory.»
«We see that this memory is selective and omits any mention of the victims of the Popular Front, of the thousands of Asturian victims of the Red Terror, who are disregarded by the institutions,» Jové pointed out in statements to the media.
He considered that the perpetrators of that «massacre» in Jove were not heroes of any noble cause, but rather «accomplices of a collective crime, an act of barbarism and vengeance.» «Neither the war, nor the prior suffering, nor the context can excuse direct or indirect participation in these murders,» he asserted.
Therefore, almost 90 years later, the memory of the 62 murdered in Jove demands, in their view, «historical justice, truth, and recognition.»
«We hope that the spirit of harmony and coexistence will prevail, and that, not too far in the future, we can pay a joint tribute, without exclusions, to all those who died in the fratricidal Civil War, regardless of the ideals that moved each side, because only through forgiveness and reconciliation can we look at the past without resentment and towards the future with hope,» the regional deputy noted.
For her part, Rouco, also a Vox spokesperson in the Gijón City Council, defended this homage «despite the left-wing parties who are creating with their narrative the lie that only the dead from their side deserve respect,» she criticized, demanding the same respect for the victims of Jove.
For her, the Historical Memory Law only serves to keep old wounds open and create a social divide, «just like what the Gijón City Council is doing, which already has a section on its website where citizens can report the presence of plaques with Francoist symbolism on buildings.»
«That campaign is a mistake, just like all the ideological controversy that the left has stirred up about a past they are using for political gain,» Rouco warned.