Bolaños celebrates the exhumation of Queipo and Bohórquez: "Genocides who had 45,000 people shot in Andalusia"

Ask the PP to clarify whether it would return his remains to La Macarena in the event of repealing the Democratic Memory Law

MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministers of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, celebrated this Thursday the exhumation of the coup leader General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano and the war auditor Francisco Bohórquez Vecina, which took place last morning in Seville. Thus, he has indicated that with the new Law of Democratic Memory, the "genocides" who had 45,000 people shot in Andalusia will not occupy places of homage in any public building.

Speaking to the media from the esplanade of the Royal Palace, before visiting the National Heritage Workshop Schools, he indicated that this morning "Seville, Andalusia and Spain have risen with dignity and with a better democracy."

He then asked "those who say they would repeal the Memory Law", in reference to the PP, if with them they would return "at the feet of La Macarena" the remains of "a genocidal general who had 45,000 people shot", according to has remarked. Thus, he has asked them to explain if that is what the repeal of the norm would mean.

Bolaños has rejected that these exhumations represent an exercise of revenge by the Government, when asked about it, and has indicated on the contrary that "today is a day of dignity, to remember the victims and think of them for a moment", he has requested, since Franco's repression ended their lives and now democracy "pays off a debt" with them.

Along the same lines, he pointed out that the Memory Law "means democracy" and equates it with "the best European standards" of surrounding countries that have suffered dictatorships.

The exhumation of the remains of Queipo de Llano and Bohórquez ended after 2:20 a.m. this Thursday in the basilica of La Macarena, thanks to the request made by the central government to the brotherhood on account of the determinations of the law, which prohibits the presence of the remains of leaders of the 1936 coup d'état in prominent places of public access.