Identified Among Those Exhumed in the Cemetery of Carmen De Ponferrada the Remains of Girón, the Myth of the Anti-Franco Guerrilla

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He was a member of the UGT and founder of the León Guerrilla Federation.

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Although he has never died at all, because history has taken care to keep him alive become a legend; Manuel Girón Bazán, the historic anti-Franist guerrilla leader key to the creation of the Federation of Guerrillas of León-Galicia, was killed on 2 May 1951 in Las Puentes de Malpaso (Molinaseca), although the Civil Guard had already considered him dead on three previous occasions. Now, almost 75 years later and when he believed himself buried in…