The IU ( United Left) has asked once again for a war memorial to be built in the harbour area of Torrevieja .The memorial would be in memory of those killed in an aerial bombardment during the Civil War.On August 25 1938 Italian aircraft based in the Balearic Islands launched a terrifying attack on the town.Numerous people died ,including many innocent civilians,children ,even babies .It has been described as a terrorist attack against civilians.
It seems that the aircraft deliberately hit a queue of people waiting outside the fish marketand other bombs fell on homes and on a football pitch.The spokesperson for the United Left said that they had made a formal request to the Torrevieja town hall in 2007 for a memorial to be erected to mark the 70th anniversary of the air raid.There has still been no reply from the ruling PP party.
The IU will now take their request to the regional and national governments to ask them to intervene in an effort to obtain a license from the port authority to erect such a memorial.The spokesperson has said that it is the obligation of the town hall to remember the people who died.
