From the BBC:
“Juan Carlos: Spain's ex-king
to return after two-year exile”
(Spain's Former King Juan Carlos
I in 2018)
Spain's former King Juan Carlos
will return to the country this week after nearly two years in exile in the
United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Spanish royal palace has confirmed. He left
Spain after he was linked to an inquiry into alleged corruption. But three
investigations against the 84-year-old were dropped in March, paving the way
for him to return. The ex-king will arrive in Spain on Thursday and before he
travels back to the UAE on Monday.
He plans to spend time with his
family in Sanxenxo, in north-west Spain, and will also see his son King Felipe
VI in the capital Madrid. The visit is part of his "desire to visit his
family and friends regularly in Spain" in a "private" setting,
the palace statement said. The former king's return comes after he sent a
letter to his son in March in which he told him he was looking to make a
"timely" return to Spain after the country's attorney general's
office shelved the investigations against him. When the letter was issued in
March, the Spanish government said Juan Carlos owed the Spanish public an
explanation for his economic affairs.
Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014
after close to 40 years in power and handed power to his son Felipe. His
decision to give up the throne came after a corruption investigation involving
his daughter's husband and a controversial elephant hunting trip the monarch
took during Spain's financial crisis. In June 2020, Spain's Supreme Court
launched an investigation into Juan Carlos's alleged involvement in a
high-speed rail contract in Saudi Arabia. He denied any wrongdoing and insisted
he was available if prosecutors needed to interview him. But in August of that
year, he travelled to the UAE where he has been living since. The forthcoming
visit has been criticised by the far-left Podemos party, which is part of the
coalition government.
^ Spain doesn’t seem to like to
deal with its past.
First they made the 1977 Amnesty
Law that made it illegal to go after anyone for any of the crimes committed during
Franco’s Dictatorship (1939-1975.) That includes going after those that ran Franco’s
300 Concentration Camps where up to 1 Million Spaniards (Republicans, Gypsies,
Jews, Galician Nationalists, Moroccan Nationalists, Homosexuals, Catalan
Nationalists, etc.) were kept from 1936-1947.
It includes the crimes committed
during the White Terror from 1936-1945 where 200,000 People were killed through
Politicide, Mass Murder, Forced Labor, Human Experimentation, War Rape and
Cultural Genocide. It doesn’t include those directly killed by the fighting
from the Civil War.
There’s a reason Franco allied
himself with Hitler during the Spanish Civil War (and only the threat of a
British Invasion kept him from continuing that allegiance during World War 2.)
Franco used Mass Murder to deal
with anyone who he didn’t like. There are 2,000 known Mass Graves throughout
Spain directly linked to him and his minions.
The 1977 Amnesty Pact was part of
the Pact of Forgetting that the Spanish Government and all the Political Parties
there agreed to after Franco’s Death to whitewash their history of any crimes. It
is still in force today.
Franco’s body wasn’t removed from
its place on honor at the Valle de los Caídos until 2019 (44 years after he
died) and even though 35% of Spaniards thought he should continue to be honored.
Now, Spain doesn’t want to deal
with its corrupt Former King Juan Carlos I. They have dropped all charges
against him – not because he went to court to fight them and won, but because
he fled Spain and went to the United Arab Emirates for the past 2 years.
Juan Carlos I was groomed by
Franco himself to be his Successor and so its not really surprising that h
turned out to not be a good Man or King. He abdicated in 2014 after several
scandals directly involving him came to light: an elephant-hunting trip to Botswana
in 2012, an embezzlement scandal involving his daughter Cristina, and her
husband Iñaki Urdangarin in 2014.
Even after he abdicated the scandals
continued: He received kick-backs from a 2020 Saudi Arabian Rail Deal, tax
offenses from 2016-2018 (he paid 678,393.72 Euros to the Spanish Tax Agency in
2020 for having defrauded the Spanish Government.) New tax offences in 2021 with the Zagatka
Foundation (he paid another 4 Million Euros to the Spanish Tax Agency for again
having defrauded the Spanish Government.)
On top of all this he is the
alleged father of Alberto Solà Jimenez, born in Barcelona in 1956, also of a Woman
born in Catalonia in 1964, and of Ingrid Sartiau, a Belgian Woman born in 1966
who has filed a paternity suit, but complete Sovereign Immunity prevented that
suit prior to his abdication.
Spain seems to want to be
ostriches with their heads in the sand rather than deal with the Mass Murder,
Concentration Camps, and Oppression of Franco and the complete lack of Integrity
and fraud of its Former King. ^
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