Relatives carry the coffin with the remains of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco at the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near El Escorial, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019.

In the days since, Franco’s supporters have laid yellow and red flowers — the colors of the Spanish flag — on the concrete next to the mausoleum, and hung Spanish flags reading “Always ...

Francisco Franco, Spain's fascist dictator, who died in 1975, is being exhumed from his purpose-built mausoleum, the Valley of the Fallen.

Franco ruled Spain between 1939 and 1975, after he and other officers led a military insurrection against the Spanish democratic government in 1936, a move that started a three-year civil war.

Spain exhumes the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid, the Valle de los Caidos, for reburial in a small family crypt.

Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco's grandson, Francisco Franco Martinez-Bordiu holds up a pre-constitutional Spanish flag he wants draped over the coffin General Franco during his reburial ...

BENAVIDES: "It's a historic site," says 74-year-old Jose Maria Martin (ph). He waves a huge Spanish flag as he tells me that if they come get Franco's remains, he'll be waiting there with a revolver.

A prior of the basilica of The Valley of the Fallen officiated. General Francisco Franco was made leader of Spain's new fascist regime on October 1, 1936.

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