About 200 people travel eight decades after the journey of the escape of the losers of the Civil War. The Minister of the Presidency, Felix Bolaños, had planned to attend, but had to cancel the trip after being operated on urgently last Saturday for biliary colic.
In 2015, then-French Prime Minister Manuel Valls chanted something akin to a state pardon: "They were humiliated. Those fleeing in search of freedom expected another kind of welcome" Since then, the authorities have multiplied the tributes to the Spanish Republicans, considered "heroes" in the neighboring country.