In Spain, thousands marched in the capital Madrid Thursday to protest plans to bury the remains of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco in the city’s Almudena Cathedral. Franco’s family is seeking to move his remains to the Madrid landmark despite government and public objections.

Gorgonio Ferrero: “If it were up to me, I’d chuck him in a ditch, like hundreds of Spaniards. In a ditch, yes, but not here.”

Franco led Spain as a military dictatorship from 1939 to 1975 after his forces claimed victory in the brutal Spanish Civil War, which killed half a million people. During his rule, he suppressed political opposition through extrajudicial killings, abductions and forced labor.