A king who is not even wanted in his own house and who has escaped legal punishment due to criminal negligence and the statute of limitations is in no position to lecture on justice, much less to speak of betrayals. But he was king for thirty-eight and a half years (1975-2014), and his opinions carry weight.

Juan Carlos I will publish his memoirs in France on November 5. This Wednesday, a week earlier, the former king made it clear that his objective is none other than to rehabilitate his image after five years of exile in Abu Dhabi. weekly Le Point He has released some excerpts from the book, in which the former monarch defends democracy as his "legacy" in Spain, and in an interview in Le Figaro He himself states that this was Franco's objective when he granted him accession to the throne: "Why lie if it was he who made me king and, in reality, did so to create a more open regime?" Coinciding with this promotion, Juan Carlos I lands in Spain this Wednesday.

There are iconic episodes of the anti-Franco struggle: the workers' movement of Baix Llobregat (from the Siemens strike in 1946 to the general strike thirty years later), the flag hung during the enthronement of the Virgin of Montserrat in 1947, the tram strike of 195. Among these episodes we would place The defenestration of a bust of General Franco and the Spanish flag from a window of the historic building of the University of Barcelona (UB) led by some 150 students who, after an assembly in the Auditorium, had occupied the rectorate on January 17, 1969.