• Preparations: Extreme security measures for the exhumation of Franco

Brothers Juan Carlos and Lorenzo Verdugo Jiménez , owners of the small business that will be responsible for lifting the slab of Francisco Franco for the exhumation of his remains from the Valley of the Fallen, have publicly denounced the campaign of "insults, false accusations and threats" They are suffering.

In a statement sent to Efe, the brothers have shown their strangeness for the "prominence" that the media have given to "modest workers" who limit themselves to carrying out the tasks entrusted to them "totally alien to partisan interests and decisions political or judicial. "

Marmolistas, owners of the company Marbles and Granites Hermanos Verdugo Jiménez , based in Villamayor de Santiago ( Cuenca ) have demanded that they be allowed to do their work "quietly" and that they "stop being used for any political interest".

"We believe that we do not enjoy any informative or media interest and we renounce any kind of prominence," said the brothers, who also insist that their work is limited to "lifting the upper cover", given that the rest of the work for the exhumation will be carried out by other "larger" funeral companies.

They have added that the order related to "the exhumation or transfer of the remains of Don Francisco Franco" has been entrusted "freely", "like any other job", without "such contracting being linked or related to any type of political ideology ".

"Our only ideals are honesty and work, oblivious to any kind of fame or prominence and, as we always do and usually, such work will be done with the respect due to the deceased and his family."

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