BNG members symbolically occupy the Pazo de Meiras to demand his return

Block militants deployed in the building banners against the dictatorship after the dictator's heirs have entrusted the management of his visits to the Foundation Francisco Franco

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Banners unfurled in the occupation of Pazo de Meiras

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"Donations" from house to house supervised by the Falange: So the Franco family with the Pazo de Meiras was

"O pazo é do Galego pobo" [the manor is the Galician people]. It is the legend that on Tuesday morning the main facade of the Pazo de Meiras, the historic building delivered to Franco in 1938 and financed mainly by mandatory financial contributions of the population looks  under the supervision of the Falange .

A group of militants coming BNG and other organizations have agreed on Tuesday to the site of Meirás and their towers have hung two banners to demand its return. "That devolvan us or roubado, Franco Never Again" [give us back what was stolen, Franco never] reads the banner other action that are also developing in social networks through the tag #  OPazoÉdoPobo .

The Bloc members have jumped the wall that surrounds the Pazo de Meiras and have managed to hang banners, as well as access inside this Tuesday 30, one of the four days mentioned in this August for visits to those required by law . Indeed, were the first two days of the month and the last two marked by the Franco Foundation to open the BIC, achieving the dictator's family is not disturbed during the summer holidays have just completed in Meirás.

Portrait of Franco inside Meirás in an image captured by one of the participants in the occupation image

In a meeting convened outside the pazo concentration deputy BNG Luis Bará it has said that the action is a "public denunciation of a totally intolerable situation" as "the Franco Foundation and the family of the dictator try to turn Meirás at a theme park of fascism with the complicity of the Xunta ". The parliamentarian has accused the Galician government to "get profile, look away and not face a serious situation", he says, "is an insult and a lack of respect for the victims of Francoism, the Galician people and own democracy".

Bara has also anuncado the BNG "will carry out all kinds of institutional actions" for the return of Pazo de Meiras to public property, but also "social mobilization and even rebelliousness and civic rebellion" as Tuesday. Remember, from the Bloc, the goal is to end a situation that allows Franco to enjoy a good that "is the result of plunder and rapine." "That will end this injustice and attack on democracy and the regional government is put in front of the whole process to recover the property," he concluded.

This industrial action takes place in full debate on the return to public property from Pazo de Meiras, rekindled after the heirs of the dictator have entrusted the Francisco Franco Foundation management visits pazo, bound by its status as a Site of Cultural interest. Franco 's organization has already warned it will use the management  apologist for the dictatorship .

At the end of the action, the Civil Guard has identified all the militants of the BNG who have agreed within the Pazo and have climbed to join the towers to display the banners. As they admit, it's likely to be reported.