Rivera’s cousin | Dozens of Falangists honor José Antonio Primo de Rivera next to his new grave

04/29/2023 at 15:46

CEST


Some 170 people have participated in a response in the Madrid cemetery of San Isidro, where the remains of the founder of the Falange were transferred last Monday

about 170 peopleaccording to data from the Government Delegation, have carried out this Saturday a response in front of the tomb of the founder of the Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, in the Sacramental Cemetery of San Isidro in Madrid.

The remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera were exhumed last Tuesday, April 24, from the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, where they had remained for 64 years, after the family requested their transfer in compliance with the new Historical Memory Law.

Half an hour before the entrance to the cemetery, orOur 400 Falangists have gathered in the vicinity of the cementerior, although only 170 people have entered the act, according to the Government Delegation.

Between a strong police device Made up of dozens of agents from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) of the National Police, the Falangists entered the cemetery around 12:00 in the morning, most of them dressed in the blue shirt characteristic of that movement, wearing flowers and laurel wreaths and between an incipient rain.

The Police have allowed them access on the condition that they do so in silence and they will not take photographs or videos, in an attitude of “absolute respect”, according to police sources, while the press has not been able to access the interior of the cemetery.

A man in a blue shirt dressed as a chaplain has also entered to lead the service, in an act in which a floral offering has also been made, to which young people dressed in blue shirts have attended.

The act has lasted half an hour and has developed “normally”, police sources have said.

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