Madrid authorities refused to grant two requests by pro-Franco associations to hold prayers next to the cemetery in protest.In spite of the refusal, around 500 Franco supporters gathered as near to the cemetery as the police cordon allowed, some performing stiff-arm fascist salutes.Guillermo Rocafort, secretary of the Memory and Roots association, was furious at the exhumation. “Franco is a historical figure in Spain, like Churchill is in Britain,” he told the Daily Telegraph.Juan, a follower of the Falangist ideology connected with Franco, said moving the body would not resolve Spain’s division over the dictatorship. “This will only make things worse, and bring about more confrontation.”.
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