The Government has sent a letter to the Elder Brother of the Brotherhood of La Macarena asking him to proceed, "as soon as possible", to the exhumation and subsequent transfer of the remains of Generals Gonzalo Queipo de Llano and Francisco Bohórquez.
In the letter, the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, makes this request in order to comply with the new Democratic Memory Law that came into force last Friday.
The mortal remains of Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, leader of the 1936 uprising and responsible for the repression in Andalusia at a later date, have rested since 1951 under the chapel of the Virgin of the Basilica de la Esperanza Macarena in Seville.
Also found in the temple are the mortal remains of Francisco Bohórquez Vecina, war auditor and responsible for the execution of sentences with the application of a war decree.
In the letter, it is recalled that the new norm establishes that "the mortal remains of leaders of the 1936 military coup may not be or remain buried in a pre-eminent place of public access, other than a cemetery, which may favor the holding of public acts of exaltation, exaltation or commemoration of the human rights violations committed during the War or the Dictatorship".
For this reason, he calls on the Brother of the Brotherhood of La Macarena to put an end to this situation "as a sign of respect for the victims and their families" and to facilitate "as much as possible" and "as soon as possible" the completion of the necessary procedures for the exhumation and transfer of the remains of Queipo de Llano and Bohórquez Vecina.
