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Spain exhumes Franco's remains from opulent mausoleum
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| Contributor | Bojicat |
| Last Edited | Bojicat Oct 24, 2019 08:26am |
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| Author | AlJazeera |
| News Date | Thursday, October 24, 2019 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Authorities in Spain have begun exhuming Francisco Franco's remains from a state mausoleum, seeking to exorcise the ghost of a dictator whose legacy still divides the country more than four decades after his death.
Amid tight security and in virtual secrecy, his coffin will be taken on Thursday from a vast, imposing basilica in the Valley of the Fallen - which has long attracted both tourists and rightwing sympathisers - and reburied in a private family vault.
His remains will be transported either by helicopter or, if bad weather intervenes, by guarded motorcade. |
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