According to El Pais with reference to the Cabinet, to date, the coffin has been removed from the grave.

For this, a granite slab weighing 1.5 tons was lifted, covering the grave.

In September, the Supreme Court of Spain upheld the exhumation of the remains of Franco. Politics will be reburied in a cemetery in El Pardo, where his wife is resting.

Franco led Spain from 1939 to 1975.