The remains of the founder of the Falange will be transferred to the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid, after his relatives requested the exhumation and in accordance with the new democratic law of remembrance.
The remains of the founder of the Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, will be exhumed this Monday in the Valley of the Fallen and moved to the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid. Will be your fifth funeral since he was shot after being tried by the republican authorities in Alicante prison in 1936, 86 years ago.
This very Monday marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Falangist leader, on April 24, 1903, whose remains will leave the valley in accordance with the democratic law of remembrance and after an agreement with his relatives.
“It’s another step in redefining the Valley,” said this week the department’s minister, Félix Bolaños, who also indicated he was not present at the excavation process, which the family has asked to carry out in the strictest privacy.
The remains of the founder of the Falange will be transferred from their location in the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen to the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid after what his relatives requested the exhumation and in accordance with the new democratic law of remembrance.
This operation will be performed after in 2019 the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco from the prominence of the temple where they stood since his death in 1975 to the El Pardo-Mingorrubio cemetery.
After that excavation, only that of Primo de Rivera remained under consideration, since the law of democratic memory obliges to move the remains located in a “prominent” site of the basilica of the Benedictine abbey, in an enclave protected by the new law has been renamed Valle de wall hanger
Primo de Rivera was shot by Republican fighters during the Civil War on November 20, 1936, and after several vicissitudes, his remains were taken to the Valley of the Fallen in 1959, after the inauguration of the compound that Francisco Franco had built. , presided over by a giant stone cross.
his grave the only single that remains in the mausoleum after Franco’s handover, as the more than 33,000 buried combatants from both sides of the Civil War, who rest in the columbariums outside the temple, are in collective locations.
Source: EITB
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