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WORLD NEWS Friday 26 OctOber 2018

Protesters march in Madrid,
Spain, Thursday Oct. 25, 2018.
Associated Press

Plan to put
Franco remains

in Madrid
cathedral

protested

Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — Hundreds
of protesters in Madrid are
urging Spanish govern-
ment and Catholic church
authorities to prevent the
remains of 20th-century
dictator Francisco Franco
from ending up in the city's
cathedral.
Spain's center-left govern-
ment has promised to ex-
hume the general's body
from a glorifying mauso-
leum he had built.
Franco's heirs have pro-
posed reinterring the re-
mains in a family crypt be-
low Almudena Cathedral,
a move that would thwart
the government's purpose
for digging them up.
Protesters on Thursday
marched from a square in
the Spanish capital to the
cathedral crypt. They held
signs with photos of Franco
and Adolf Hitler and shout-
ed, "Franco, criminal, out
of the cathedral."
The government says it
can remove Franco's re-
mains from the Valley of
the Fallen, but can't legally
stop his heirs from rebury-
ing them in a church.q