The Government takes the Francoist Manifesto supported by Tejero and the president of Clean Hands | Spain

The Government has put in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office the first attempt of an ultra group for counterprogramming official acts on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. The Minister of Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has announced in X that the Executive has informed the Public Ministry A manifesto with firms of the former lieutenant colonel and coup Antonio Tejero, the president of the pseudosindicato ultra clean hands, Miguel Bernad, and several judges and retired military, in which they were shown as « Spanish grateful to Franco. » For Torres, the brief and the group that drives it, platform 2025, violate the Democratic Memory Law. They involve « discredit, contempt or humiliation of the victims or their relatives, » said the minister, who understands the actions of platform 2025 and his own existence constitute « actions of exaltation of the military uprising, of the war and of the dictatorship » proscribed by the norm.

In the government brief, addressed to the head of the Prosecutor for Human Rights and Democratic Memory and to which the country has had access, it is denounced that the facts could be constitutive of crimes for “having lace in article 510 of the Criminal Code (crimes of hatred), because they are acts that involve personal or collective exaltation, of the military uprising, of the war or of the dictatorships, of its leaders, of its leaders, participants in the repressive system, participants Organizations that sustained the dictatorial regime, entrusting discredit, contempt or humiliation of the victims or their relatives. ” The government maintains that the platform has been created in this fiftieth anniversary « remembering and honoring Franco’s memory. »

On the manifesto, with the title « We do not forget or shut up », the Executive understands that it is nothing but « an exalting the figure of Francisco Franco », who is presented as a « heroic soldier », and that the text also extolizes the military uprising that commanded against the Second Republic, « qualified as a liberation crusade », in addition to the civil war and the victory of the victory of the troops of the national side. The text to the Fiscal Ministry continues that the denounced also exalt the « dictatorial regime », that in it the ultra -rightists say that « he removed the hatred and parasitism of the left » and that « led to the true reconciliation among the Spaniards. »

The prosecution also informs the intervention of A Vox deputy in the Balearic Islands on Tuesday, April 1, in which the parliamentarian, Sergio Rodríguez, began an intervention in the plenary evoking Franco’s triumph in the civil war. “I am very well sent, obeying the Government of Spain and its president Pedro Sánchez, in his year of celebration, I wish you a happy April Victory Day« Rodríguez said in reference to the date on which Franco gave » captive and disarmed « the Republican side. The opposition recalled that the exaltation of Franco is vetoed by law, but the president of the Chamber, the also Ultra Gabriel Le Senne refused to withdraw the words for considering them » a joke. « 

The Ultra platform intends to fill this 2025 of talks and tribute events to counteract a hundred acts organized by the Government on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the dictator’s death and the beginning of the transition to democracy. The group claims to have collected more than 1,200 accessions, from aristocrats and men and women with police and criminal records, retired military, priests, teachers and even judges.

The Government understands that the platform and its brief attempt against article 38.1 of the Democratic Memory Law, which proscribes “acts carried out in public” discredited by the victims of the civil war and the dictatorship, and emphasizes that this rule obliges “the competent authorities” to inform the Fiscal Ministry. And to justify that he denounces it, the Executive also quotes article 62 of the standard, which considers very serious infractions “the lack of adoption of the necessary measures to prevent or end the realization, in spaces open to the public or in premises and public establishments, of acts of personal or collective exaltation, of the military uprising, of the war or of the dictatorship, of its leaders, participants in the repressive system or of the organizations that sustained the organizations that sustained the dictatorial regime « , and the calls for » acts, dissemination or advertising campaigns that, by any means of public communication (…) encourage the personal or collective exaltation « of the coup plotters or the dictatorial regime they engendered. The letter closes alluding to the Criminal Code and its definition of hate crimes.

In addition to Tejero and Bernad, the President of the Francisco Franco National Foundation, Juan Chicharo; The retired general Blas Piñar Gutiérrez, son of the founder of Fuerza Nueva and signer, in 1981, of the 100 Manifesto in support of the coup plotters of 23-F; José Luis Roberto, president of the Organization Ultra España 2000; Six family members of the Francoist minister Utrera Molina, as well as Luis Alfonso de Borbón and Martínez Bordiú, Franco’s great -grandson, and other grandchildren of the dictator; José also subscribes Yusti, magistrate already retired who tried to paralyze the transfer of the remains of Franco of the Cuegamuros Valley; Ramiro Grau Moracho, former prisoner condemned for corruption of minors; Other Falangists and the one, large and free bar manager, Chinese Chen Xianwei.