Abascal rejects the exhumation of Queipo de Llano: "Desecrate graves and disturb the rest of the dead"

Vox blames the Brotherhood for submission to the Government and a deputy says that the Queipo repression "responded to leftist violence"

MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has criticized this Thursday the exhumation of the mortal remains of the coup leader General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano and the war auditor Francisco Bohórquez Vecina from the Macarena basilica, in Seville.

Abascal also lamented that the transfer of the bodies took place coinciding with the celebration of All Saints' Day, when "so many Spaniards go to cemeteries to remember and honor their deceased."

"These days (...) Sánchez and his henchmen take advantage of them to desecrate graves and disturb the rest of the dead," the leader of Vox has censored in a comment posted on his personal Twitter account.

The exhumation has been criticized by more Vox leaders, all expressing their rejection of the removal of the mortal remains from the Macarena basilica in application of the Democratic Memory Law.

Among them, the party's spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, accuses the government of continuing its "courageous war on the dead" through the exhumation of Queipo de Llano "at night and treachery."

And he charges against the Big Brother of the Macarena, José Antonio Fernández Cabrero, since he considers it "inexplicable" that he has "so submissively bowed" to the Executive of Pedro Sánchez.

One of the most critical of the exhumation has been the Vox deputy for Seville Francisco Contreras, who assumes that the repression of Queipo in Andalusia was "very harsh", but adds that "it often responded to previous violence by leftists", among whose victims include his priest great-uncle.

In addition, he censures that "those guilty of an equally harsh repression in the republican zone are not unearthed, nor are honors withdrawn." "Perhaps we have to take revenge on Queipo for its decisive role in the course of the war," he says, explaining that "without its success in western Andalusia, the African army would not have had a bridgehead through which to pass to the Peninsula ". And he remembers that Queipo de Llano "took Seville with very little strength, risking everything for everything."

In addition, he underlines that the current Macarena basilica is from the 1940s and its predecessor was burned "by those whom the diggers call fighters for democracy"; while the carving of the Macarena was saved from the calls because the faithful hid it in a private home since April 1936.

Next, the Vox parliamentarian shares a journalistic opinion article that emphasizes the "improvement and charity works" carried out by Queipo de Llano in Seville and the "thanks" of the Brotherhood of La Macarena for having saved several churches "of the red fire".