US Edition50 Years of Franco's Death: Mass Tribute to the Spanish Dictator Cancelled in Paris
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After the sulphurous mass tribute to Philippe Pétain, on 15 November in Verdun, a similar ceremony was scheduled this 29 November in a Parisian chapel, in tribute to the Spanish dictator, who died there...
After Verdun and the tribute to Pétain, Paris was to host a mass for Franco and Primo de Rivera. Faced with the outcry, the organizers – an openly fascist circle – cancel by whining over the "repression".
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in his bed on November 20, 1975, leaving power "tied up". Half a century later, we have brought together Edurne Alegria, Amaia Aseginolaza, Xabier Arin and Xabier Elosegi at the Biltxokoa in Bayonne.
Fifty years after his death, a mass in tribute to the Spanish dictator Franco, scheduled for 29 November in Paris, was cancelled, the organizers announced in a statement consulted by Radio France on Thursday. They refer to "media pressure on places of worship".
In French exile, in the mid-1970s, more than 220,000 Republican resistance fighters, politicians and intellectuals eagerly awaited the news of the death of Francisco Franco. Yesterday, 50 years ago, it was time. Antonina Rodrigo García, too, lived in France at the time. She spoke to her about how she experienced the death of the dictator and what followed. [...]
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