Outrage on social networks after discovering that the owner of ‘Casa Pepe’, a roadside bar considered a temple of fascism and dictatorship, has been honored with a street named in Almuradiel (Ciudad Real), the town of 800 inhabitants, in which the establishment is located.
Juan Navarro Muñoz, who passed away three years ago, was well known for his comments by right-wing, racists, and sexists. However, his fame in Spain responds to the fact of having become a bar of the A-4 (carretera de Andalucía) in a museum of the franco era: flags with the symbol of the eagle, and portraits of Franco and of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, products initialled with the yoke and the arrows falangistas, as well as a myriad of symbols and undemocratic that still remain today in the local marcen of the Law of Historical Memory.
Now, this controversial hotel will have a street in Almuradiel thanks to the favourable vote of two councillors of the Popular Party (PP) and the abstention of the two members of Citizens, according to ‘the journal.is’. The Socialist Party (PSOE), governing in the locality in coalition with Citizens, voted against it, but the mayor was low at the time of the vote due to a serious illness, so that only a socialist councillor could vote against the proposal, which left a neighborhood association.
however, and despite its low health, the mayor attended the plenary session held in December, and projected a video that showed some of the phrases most controversial of Navarro Muñoz to ask the council members who reflexionasen before voting. “Women should be in the kitchen, doing the duties of the house,” “Hitler or Franco, one of the two would be needed now in Spain” or “I don’t sleep with Franco, I sleep with girls of 18 to 20 years old… you know the saying, old cat, rat tender”, are some of the statements of the hospitality that is showed in the pictures.
however, the video shown by the mayor is not served to nothing. According to statements collected by the aforementioned means, the councillors pdp have argued that the owner of ‘Casa Pepe’ is granted to a street “by their condition of neighbor, not for nothing Franco or these things…”. Meanwhile, from Citizens to justify abstention because it does not seems to them “neither good nor bad proposal”. However, the mayor, that he will return in the next few days to his post, still hopes to reverse the decision.
The measure has been harshly criticized by associations of victims of francoism and by the users of social networks. “The exaltation of fascism is not that is not a crime, is that promoting institutions,” commented a user.
Other users have compared the decision of the city Council and the cases of tweeters accused or convicted of crimes related to the humiliation of the victims of ETA.
Other twitterers have been compared to franco’s Spain with the nazi Germany.
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