The man known as the ‘viceroy of Andalusia’, accused of war crimes, is buried in a prominent place in the Basilica de la Esperanza Macarena, in Seville
Only four days after the publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) of the Democratic Memory Law, the Government began the process to exhume the remains of Francoist General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, whose grave is in a place of the Basilica de la Esperanza Macarena, in Seville.
The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, sent a letter on Monday to the Brotherhood of La Macarena, in charge of watching over the grave, in which he highlights “the paradox that this presence entails in a religious compound destined for worship and prayer It has been the subject of a broad social debate, which has been echoed by numerous national and international news media and publications.
The Government’s initiative is not, in any case, any improvisation. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, had already anticipated that the day after the publication in the BOE of the new norm, the process of exhuming the Francoist figures buried in public places would be undertaken. And he especially focused on José Antonio Primo de Rivera -buried in the Valle de los Caídos basilica, renamed last week as Cuelgamuros- and Queipo de Llano. In the case of the founder of the Falange, shot by the Republican side in 1936, the family has anticipated it by announcing its willingness to carry out the exhumation voluntarily and by its own means.
Queipo de Llano, known as ‘viceroy of Andalusia’, a war criminal for his detractors, lies since his death in 1951 in the Basilica of the Macarena in Seville, whose construction was promoted by the general himself, author of a brutal repression that took more than 12,000 lives in the province and about 50,000 in the entire community, leaving for posterity also radio speeches in which he harangued soldiers to rape Republican women to show them what “a real man” was.
Queipo de Llano, in one of his radio speeches. /
Together with the Francoist general, Francisco Bohórquez, war auditor and responsible for the execution of sentences with application of war decree, must also be exhumed from his grave in the basilica.
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