MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The parties that make up United We Can have celebrated the exhumation of the mortal remains of coup leader General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano from the Macarena basilica, highlighting that Spain recovers “dignity”: “Never more honors to fascists.”
After 2:20 a.m. this Thursday, the removal of his remains from Queipo de Llano with the war auditor Francisco Bohórquez Vecina was completed, after the request made by the central government to the brotherhood on account of the determinations of the recent reform of the State Law of Democratic Memory, which prohibits the presence of the remains of leaders of the 1936 coup d’état in prominent places of public access.
The state co-spokesperson for Podemos, Pablo Fernández, has affirmed that Queipo de Llano was “responsible for the murder of thousands of Andalusians”, including that of the poet Federico García Lorca, and has welcomed the fact that “finally he no longer rests with honors in the Macarena”.
“Today our country is a little more dignified. Truth, justice and reparation,” he pointed out on social networks. Meanwhile, Podemos has stressed on its official Twitter account that “this exhumation is great news for any Democrat” and that Queipo de Llano was known as “the butcher of Andalusia.”
“The remains of the fascist Queipo de Llano leave the Basilica of the Macarena in Seville. A debt is fulfilled with the Historical Memory and the thousands of people killed and retaliated under his command,” IU exclaimed through its official profile in the same social network.
The deputy of United We Can in Congress Joan Mena has also reacted to this exhumation and has proclaimed that he was “one of the most violent generals of the military coup.” “Today the law of democratic memory does justice and reparation. Never more honors to the fascists”, has deepened the also leader of En Comú Podem.
His fellow caucus and president of the confederal group in the Lower House, Jaume Asens, has said that Queipo de Llano was “a coup plotter” and that “he invited Democratic women to be raped and from the radio he boasted of destroying working-class neighborhoods.” “This was Queipo de Llano. A soldier whose tomb is no longer an altar in democracy,” he snapped.
