The Borriana culture department, led by Vox, has removed a commemorative plaque for the victims of Franco’s repression in the municipality. The sign was located in a central square of the town, Plaza La Mercé, and displayed the total number of Burrian residents retaliated during the Franco dictatorship. The decision has been adopted by Vox without consulting with the rest of the municipal forces, not even with the mayor of the PP.
The Councilor for Culture of the Burriana City Council, Jesús Albiol, has said that he has removed the plaque because it contained “clear historical errors and false data.” The councilor stated that it was a plaque placed by the previous municipal government formed by nationalists and socialists (Compromis and PSOE) that contained “some data that does not correspond to reality, because Compromís has dedicated itself to what it has dedicated itself to while governed. “been to make political use of history to make political profit from the victims of the Spanish civil war by distorting history.”
It is not the first time that the unilateral decisions of the Department of Culture cause tension in the government. The actions of the mayor, Jesús Albiol, in the municipal library with the withdrawal of the children’s and youth section of books such as “Kike and the Barbies” or “the girl who had two dads” for being, according to him, “pornographic” also caused unrest in the City Council.
Albiol has also announced that it has already requested the municipal archaeologist, responsible for the Municipal Museum, “for a plaque – which will be placed in a more suitable location – containing the real historical data, verified and investigated by the municipal technician about what happened there. since that building exists.”
And he stressed: “I am the Councilor for Culture, it is a cultural building and what I want is for people to know what has happened in that building from its construction to the current date; What uses has it had, without any ideology. The left has dedicated itself in recent years to using the victims of the civil war to confront the Spanish. There were victims, but on both sides. “Not just one.”
