Spanish dictator Francisco Franco to be reburied in ordinary cemetery
Court gives go-ahead to move his remains away from those of his victims
24 September 2019 - 18:24
Madrid — Spain’s supreme court gave the government the go-ahead on Tuesday to exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco and move them from the state mausoleum in which he was buried in 1975.
The ruling could end decades of controversy over the burial place of the man who still divides opinion in Spain, 80 years after the end of the 1936-1939 civil war he unleashed and nearly 44 years after his death...
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