MADRID \u2014 Spanish police intervened Sunday to keep trouble from erupting at a rally in Madrid marking the anniversary of military dictator Francisco Franco \u2019s\u2026<\/b>
\nMADRID \u2014 Spanish police intervened Sunday to keep trouble from erupting at a rally in Madrid marking the anniversary of military dictator Francisco Franco \u2019s death after feminist protesters interrupted the event.
Officers on horseback and on foot quickly moved to keep an angry crowd of about 200 away from the three members of the Feminist group Femen who ran into the gathering. The women were topless and had the words \u201cLegal fascism, national shame\u201d painted on their torsos.
Police escorted the three activists away while Franco supporters shouted insults and \u201c Franco! Franco!\u201d
The rally is held annually on the Sunday falling closest to Nov. 20, the date Franco died in 1975. The general ruled Spain for 36 years after leading a military uprising that started the Spanish Civil War.
Spain\u2019s Socialist-led government plans to exhume Franco \u2019s remains from the Valley of the Fallen, a mausoleum northwest of Madrid he ordered built as a memorial to the 1936-39 war. Some 34,000 people from both sides of the fighting are buried at the site, most of them never identified.
Applauded by Spaniards on the left, the decision has infuriated others nostalgic for the dictatorship and drawn criticism from Spain\u2019s center-right political parties, who consider it unnecessary.
Elsewhere on Sunday, supporters of the government\u2019s plan to move Franco \u2019s remains gathered at the Valley of the Fallen.
The anti- Franco protesters held a banner reading \u201cTruth, justice and compensation for the victims of Franco \u201d and chanted \u201cWe won\u2019t forgive, we won\u2019t forget!\u201d<\/p>\n

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