Army sources have explained that it is an “unauthorized” activity carried out during a planned march. EH Bildu, ERC, Podemos and Más País have already asked the Minister of Defense for an explanation.
The military has opened an investigation to clear the responsibilities of a unit that took part in a religious act in the Valley of the Fallen, according to official sources from the Land Branch of the Armed Forces.
It is a military unit of the Light Protected Battalion Uad-Ras IImembers of the Asturias Infantry Regiment 31 (RI 31)a unit framed in the Guadarrama XII Infantry Brigadelocated in the Military base El Goloso, in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid)
One video shows members of the unit blessing the company’s pennant. Army sources have explained that it is an “unauthorized” activity carried out during a planned march.
The deputy of EH Bildu Jon Inarritu He has already made demands on social networks that he will ask Defense Secretary Margarita Robles in the Congress of Deputies about the matter.
If you are the minister of @Defensagob from these ostentatious things he becomes like a hydra.
Well, it will continue again. https://t.co/9otHoFjo7f
— Jon Inarritu (@JonInarritu) June 1, 2022
Esquerra Republicana and Más País have also presented initiatives in Congress to seek explanations from the Ministry of Defense. United We Can, a minority partner of the Spanish government, also believes that this issue calls for Minister Margarita Robles to clarify the facts.
“This fact is extremely serious, because it implies the autonomy of some of our country’s armed forces that do not adhere to constitutional mandates or democratic norms, as well as their own precepts, to account for an act of faith to the Francos dictatorship and the symbolic and religious bastions that support it today,” emphasizes Inigo Errejonof More Country-Equo.
CKD He focuses his questions on the unit captain, identified by the acronym JLP, and assures that he is the same person who two years ago had his company’s pennant blessed by the priest of the General Military Academy.
“Will the captain and members of this and other army regiments be punished or sanctioned if they perform these acts in spaces of a fascist nature such as the Valley of the Fallen?” the deputy asks. Gerard Alvarez
They stand on the steps leading to the Valley of the Fallen and a priest blesses the company flag. “Can you imagine the German army being blessed in a Hitler mausoleum?” asks the president of the United We Can group in Congress on Twitter. James Asens
“Unacceptable and incompatible with a democratic state,” said Congressional Vice President Gloria ElizoUnited we can.
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