A police report confirms the murder of Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936

USPA NEWS - A police report dated 1965 confirms first documented the poet Federico García Lorca was killed by the Franco regime, the August 18, 1936, due to their beliefs. For now, it is not known where he is buried.

The report of the Chief of Police of Granada, in southern Spain, and reveals that Federico García Lorca, a member of the Generation of '27 and author of works such as 'Gypsy Ballads', 'Poet in New York' or, theater, 'blood Wedding' and 'Yerma', was killed along with another person for being "socialist Mason" and their "homosexual practices.“ He was murded in August 18, 1936, some months after the start of the Spanish Civil War.

In the document it is said that Lorca was arrested at the home of some friends, the Rosales brothers, where he had taken refuge. According to the report, the poet was conducted on a car to the town of Viznar, in the province of Granada, with another detainee, and was executed after "confessing". It is not known where he is buried. Lorca was killed by Franco's troops was known, but until now had not found any official document to confirm it. After his death, his body was buried in a mass grave in an unknown location. For decades, their families and people interested in restoring the honor of the poet seeking unsuccessfully where his remains.