Question 8341 — foreign policy

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France and Spain are united by particularly close human and historical ties, of which the memory of the Spanish Civil War constitutes an important element. France naturally thinks of the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards who took refuge in France following this conflict, but also of the commitment of many of them within the Foreign Legion, the French Resistance and the Free French Forces during the Second World War. The 75th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War gave rise, in this regard, to important commemorative actions. The procedures concerning the French journalist Renée Lafont, who went to Andalusia to cover the Civil War, are part of this memorial framework. The coordination of memorial organizations CAMINAR drew the attention of the Presidency of the Republic to the work undertaken with a view to locating, exhuming and identifying the body of the journalist, killed during the conflict.  To identify the location where Madame Renée Lafont was buried, the Consulate General of France in Seville contacted the Salud cemetery in Cordoba, which advised it to contact the Municipal Archives and the Forum for the Historical Memory of the city of Cordoba. The services of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs will continue this research.

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