Montejurra in Spanish and Jurramendi in Basque are the names of a mountain in Navarre (Spain) region. Each year, it hosts a Carlista celebration, in remembrance of a 1873 battle during the Third Carlist War. In 2004, about a 1 000 persons were present. Capital Pamplona (Basque: Iruña) Official language(s) Spanish; Basque co-official in the north of community. ... Carlism is a traditionalist, legitimist political movement in Spain seeking, among other things, the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Restoration promiss During the Third Carlist War (1872-1876), the carlist forces managed to occupy some cities in the interior Catalonia. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1976 Gladio-related shooting

On May 9, 1976, a year after Francisco Franco's death, the Carlist party was victim of a violent incident organized by Franco's supporters, who still controlled the state apparatus. Ricardo García Pellejero and Aniano Jiménez Santo, two supporters of Carlist pretendant Carlos-Hugo de Borbón-Parma, were gunned down by far-right gunmen, among whom Gladio operative Stefano Delle Chiaie. This attack was organized with the help of Carlos-Hugo's brother, Sixto Enrique de Borbón, a fascist opposed to the Carlist break with Franco (1965-67) and to the leftist Titoist turn taken by Carlos-Hugo's movement. Against this, Sixto had headed a far-right split. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo (4 December 1892 – 20 November or possibly 19 November[1] 1975), abbreviated “Francisco Franco y Bahamonde” and commonly known as “Generalísimo Francisco Franco” (pron. ... Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was a clandestine stay-behind operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. ... Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 1934) was a figure on the far right of Italian politics who went on to become a wanted man worldwide. ... His Royal Highness Sixtus Henry of Bourbon and Bourbon Busset, Duke of Aranjuez, Infante of Spain, Prince of Parma and Piacenza, Regent of the Traditionalist Communion, Standard-bearer of Tradition. ... Titoism is a term describing political ideology named after Yugoslav leader, Josip Broz Tito, primarily used to describe the schism between the Soviet Union and Socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War (see Cominform) when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia refused to take further dictates from Moscow. ...

According to General Sáenz de Santamaría, Sixto had obtained the secret services' help in order to overthrow his brother's faction during the Montejurra celebrations:

"The operation received the code-name "operation Reconquista". Contacts were established with organisms such as the SECED (CESID's predecessor), the Guardia Civil and Sixto's Carlist allies, José Arturo Márquez de Prado, Antonio María de Oriol, Urquijo, and General Campano, who was at that time Guardia Civil's head. Founded by Carrero Blanco, CESED was directed at this moment by general Juan Valverde. The meetings were coordinated by Minister Manuel Fraga himself." ^[1]

CESED brought far-right members to the Montejurra celebrations, while other extremist organizations such as the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey (Christ King Guerrillas), Fuerza Nueva and others contacted members of the Italian International Fascists and of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA). This explains why Stefano Delle Chiaie, Augusto Canchi or Argentinian Rodolfo Almirón were present for the shootings. Mercenary Jean Pierre Cherid also appeared for the first time at Montejurra. For other senses of this word, see Reconquista (disambiguation). ... Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa was the Spanish intelligence agency before the CNI. ... Patrol boat, Nervion river, Bilbao. ... Luís Carrero Blanco (March 4, 1903 – December 20, 1973) was a Spanish admiral and statesman. ... Manuel Fraga Iribarne (born November 23, 1922 at Villalba, Galicia) is a Spanish politician. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Christ King is a slogan used by Christians who pursue a theocracy. ... The Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (in Spanish, Alianza Anticomunista Argentina, usually known as Triple A and written AAA) was a far-right death squad active in Argentina during the mid-1970s, linked to the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla. ...

Those crimes were executed before Interior Minister Manuel Fraga's security forces, without the gunmen being arrested neither their weapons seized. They have been related^{[citation needed]} with Gladio "stay-behind" networks, as well as what would later become the GAL^{[citation needed]} ("Antiterrorists Liberation Groups", a death-squad which fought ETA in the 1980s). Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was a clandestine stay-behind operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (Antiterrorist Liberation Groups) were death squads illegally set up by officials within the Spanish government to fight ETA. They were active from 1983 until 1987, under PSOEs cabinets. ... For other uses, see ETA (disambiguation). ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ...

At the demand of the Carlist Party, José Luis Marín García Verde and Hermenegildo García Llorente were later accused of murder, before being amnestied, without any judgment.

On November 11, 2003, after various denegations, one of the Carlist Party's recourses led to the recognition by the Audiencia Nacional, Spanish highest court, of the two dead Carlists as victims of terrorism, allowing their families' indemnization ^[2]. November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Audiencia Nacional de España, is a high court in Spain. ...

See also

• Carlism
• Partido Carlista (Carlist Party)
• 1973 Ezeiza massacre (similar mode of operation, in Buenos Aires)
• Operation Gladio

Carlism is a traditionalist, legitimist political movement in Spain seeking, among other things, the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne. ... The Ezeiza massacre took place on June 20, 1973 near the Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Emblem of Gladio, Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind paramilitary organizations. ...

Notes

• ↑  Montejurra-jurramendi
• Montejurra 76 "A try to interpretation" by Joaquín Cobero

External links

• Web of Montejurra (Spanish)
• Crimes of Montejurra 1976(Spanish)
• Montejurra 76 Cronic by Santiago Belloch(Spanish)
• Partido Carlista-Carlist Party(Official Web)
• Sixto's statements on the shootings (Spanish)