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Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex – media

Relatives of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry the coffin after the exhumation at The Valle de los Caidosmin San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, on 24th October 2019.

Madrid, SpainReuters Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported.  It will be the first exhumation of its kind involving people whose bodies were moved from elsewhere after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families’ […]

Spain to exhume fascist movement founder’s body from Madrid mausoleum

Tombs of the Primo de Rivera family are seen on the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid, where the remains of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Spanish fascist Falange party, might be buried after being exhumed from the Franco-era monument known as "The Valley of the Fallen" on Monday in Madrid, Spain, on 23rd April, 2023.

Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain on Monday will dig up the body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, and remove it from a mausoleum carved into a mountainside near Madrid. Primo de Rivera’s exhumation, which follows the 2019 removal of the remains of dictator Francisco […]