They ask to change the name of eight municipalities in application of the law of democratic memory

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The lawyer Eduardo Ranz also requests that twenty archbishoprics and bishoprics remove Francoist symbols

Edward Ranza lawyer for victims of the Franco regime, presented this Tuesday petitions to eight municipalities in Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León so that they change their name already twenty archbishoprics and bishoprics so that they withdraw Francoist symbols in application of the recently approved law of democratic memory.

In a statement, the lawyer recalls that there are still eight municipalities with names dedicated “to those who lived through the worst stage of the most contemporary history” of Spain.

Specifically, he mentions three in Castilla y León, Quintanilla de Onesimo (Valladolid), Alcocero of Mola (Burgos) and San Leonardo de Yagüe (Soria); two in Extremadura, Guadiana del Caudillo and Villafranco del Guadiana, both in the province of Badajoz; many others Castile-La Mancha, Caudillo’s Alberche (Toledo) and Caudillo Plains (Ciudad Real), and one in Andalusia, Villafranco del Guadalhorce (Malaga).

Ranz alleges that article 35 of the new law establishes that references made in toponyms will be considered elements contrary to democratic memory.

At the same time, he relates twenty diocesan territories with Francoist symbols and explains that the law states that when the elements contrary to democratic memory are located in buildings of a private or religious nature but with projection to a public space or use, the people or institutions that own or own they must withdraw or eliminate them.

In this sense it refers to seven archbishopricsthose of Oviedo, Mérida-Badajoz, Pamplona-Tudela, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza.

Equally thirteen bishopricsthose of Getafe, Alcalá de Henares, Cartagena, Ciudad Rodrigo, Almería, Córdoba, Coria-Cáceres, Ourense, Orihuela-Alicante, Santander, Tui-Vigo, Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño and Segovia.

Eduardo Ranz warns that article 61.2.d) of the law qualifies as serious infraction the maintenance of symbols Francoist in a town hall or within the Catholic Church.

It explains that said precept establishes that “failure to comply with the resolution agreeing to withdraw symbols and elements contrary to democratic memory when they involve discredit, contempt or humiliation of the victims or their relatives” will entail a fine of between 2,001 and 10,000 euros.

The lawyer is pleased that “soon the symbolism of exaltation of those who committed crimes against humanity in Spain will disappear and it will be thanks to a democratic law.”

Nevertheless sorry they are still here “on roads, maps or religious centers of Spain symbology reminiscent” of Francoism.

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