The King and the 23-F.
The assault on the Parliament, parliamentarians, knees and the floor.
A number of journalists who lived and verse the flashpoints hours of that 23-F, are now recalling the coup attempt. It was a long night between proofs of panic, dizziness news and rumors of swords, followed by a sunrise increasingly confusing but obvious signs that things were not going to continue to have, at least for a while, the same strokes.
One of the first newspapers that responded was "Country", directed at that time by Juan Luis Cebrian, who took a special edition of its newspaper in which he told what was happening during those hours. When TVE confirmed that they had occupied and Milans del Bosch had decreed a state of emergency in Valencia, Cebrián realized this was serious and involved were also to the newspaper. "I talked to the Zarzuela, with Sabino Fernández Campo, Fernando Gutierrez, Balsemaro, then Portuguese Prime Minister and other personalities, until we saw the extent that this could have."
His first obsession was to get the extra edition, before the coup arrived. "If the coup succeeded Cebrián reminded me, who explained the explosion of the country, largely thanks to the failed coup, "it did not matter that we removed it or not, because we were already sentenced. And if it succeeded, it was our obligation. So badly publish an edition of thirty thousand copies of sixteen pages, because we wanted to leave at any cost before the coup arrived and we will get caught. Left at ten at night and sold out within an hour. In the following days, we pull up to half a million a day. "
Pedro J. Ramirez, then director of" Diario 16 ", was leaving to attend a meeting I had with Juan Luis Cebrian. Attempted to build a joint position against the demand for military ETA asked both managers to publish a series of documents as a condition for releasing the consuls for her kidnapped. "At the time I was preparing to leave for this meeting, I recalled Peter J. Ramirez came to me telex announcing the event. The first moments were in disarray. Then, there were a few minutes of serious anxiety when RNE and TVE stopped broadcasting. Not that we would ask ourselves if the military came, but what we do now to come. It was a gratuitous assumption because, as we learned later, a platoon of the regiment of Savoy de Leganés came to be mounted on their trucks to take 'Diario 16. "
Paradoxically, Ricardo Utrilla, former director of publications "Cambio 16" and former President of EFE, that night was anything but boring. "I came to the wording in the afternoon and told me what happened. At first no one accepted that it was a coup, but an Argentine who understand that a lot. But when we saw that were serious, we said 'we caught, at least, confessed, "and we went with the lawyer of the house to take a few cockles steamed with a bottle of cold Riveiro. We were in the bar until nine following the events on the radio. From there we went to the courts to try to enter. But it was all cordoned off. A clan of far right shouting: 'Tejero, kill them. " Another leftist group booed. The police charged but there was no resistance from the extremists who disappeared, which we realized that there was much patriotic war fervor. In the end, I went home where I kept the news by radio and television. When King came out, I felt relieved and knew that everything was under control. "
journalistic experience was a fascinating, harrowing at times, as it wore on the sequence of events. Until the King went on television. Then he wrote many books on this subject, stands a very controversial entitled "23 F, the blow that never existed," Amadeo Martínez English-, but remain to be clarified some of the most revealing, as the role of King that night, so well defended by most newspapers and political groups. This book argues that the 23-F was born in the Zarzuela and was orchestrated by the King with the help of Army generals and Milans del Bosch, who was planning a coup by his side to "save the monarchy", but meant to settle the newly born English democracy. Julio Anguita
states in an interview on September 3, 2008, that 23-F, the King was in the mix. "I think the King knew what was afoot. I do not think the Board of National Defense and the CESID not inform him of what was brewing. What happens is that there were several conspirators of silence and a misunderstanding which was a lot of people. Why do you call Milans del Bosch and ask for Navy and say that neither is nor was he waiting for? Because they know perfectly what they play. Here was an agreement that Army or the white elephant to persuade the spokespersons to vote rather than vote for him Leopold. It was a shock collar white, bloodless, but the next day all reconsider their attitudes and caring shown to the command of His Majesty which hen. Naturally, King borboneó tried to graze, and cut when he was cut. He put on his suit clad captain general and left democrat, but was in the ointment and took a change of course rather similar to the diet-soft Primo de Rivera that he intended Tejero, it was crazy. "
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