The Spanish government is making a formal complaint to the Vatican over what they term “interference in state affairs” regarding the exhumation of Francisco Franco’s remains.
Franco was buried in the basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, built during the dictatorship to honour the dead in Spain’s bloody civil war. In 2018 the Spanish socialist Government began the process of exhuming his body.
In a recent interview, nuncio Renzo Fratini accused the state of having managed the exact opposite of what they intended, in effect “resurrecting Franco”. The nuncio was referring to the fact that the move had opened old wounds in a still divided country.
