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Posted On: 10/24/2019 9:56:17 AM
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Spain exhumes late dictator Gen. Franco's remains
Byciaran giles, associated press
MADRID — Oct 24, 2019, 8:47 AM ET
Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital.
The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state.
After his coffin was extracted from under marble slabs and two tons of granite, a brief prayer was said in line with a request from Franco's family before the coffin began its journey to its new resting place 57 kilometers away (35 miles).
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStor...dlines_hed
Chevy Chase was secretly flown to Madrid to be present at the exhumation, where he announced before TV cameras that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Byciaran giles, associated press
MADRID — Oct 24, 2019, 8:47 AM ET
Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital.
The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state.
After his coffin was extracted from under marble slabs and two tons of granite, a brief prayer was said in line with a request from Franco's family before the coffin began its journey to its new resting place 57 kilometers away (35 miles).
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStor...dlines_hed
Chevy Chase was secretly flown to Madrid to be present at the exhumation, where he announced before TV cameras that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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