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The fact that he was lieutenant colonel of the Antonio Tejero Civil Guard, author of the 1981 coup d'état, has...
The civil guard's family explains that he is "in a situation of clinical stability" and has been discharged from hospital after being admitted to a situation of maximum severity and that several media considered him dead.
Why Spain’s 23-F still matters to expats
ANTONIO TEJERO, the retired Guardia Civil officer who led Spain’s failed 1981 coup d’état, remains in critical condition at a Valencian hospital, according to local media. Tejero’s hospitalisation generated a wave of false death reports across Spanish outlets before family clarifications emerged. Family members have denied premature reports of his death, confirming that the 93-year-old received… Source
Media specify: "Clinically dead." El Mundo: "He received the extreme anointing" (ANSA)
The lieutenant colonel protagonist of the attempted coup d'état died at 93 years old. With him disappears one of the most controversial symbols of the Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy
Antonio Tejero Molina, Antonio Tejero, the lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard, the main protagonist of the failed coup d'état of 23-F 1981, is in a critical state in Valencia at the age of 93, as the family has pointed out, after the news of his death.Tejero is the one who broke out armed and the cry of "Stay everybody!" in the Congress of Deputies during the investiture vote of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. Along with 200 civil guards, he kidnapped…
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