Yesterday we were all reminded – as if we needed reminding in the age of Trump, Farage and Lowe – that even in Western Europe democracy can’t be taken for granted. On the same day as the death of a man who opened fire in the Spanish parliament leading an attempted military coup, documents were […]
Antonio Tejero
Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain
European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93. Veteran Searchlight readers will remember him as, resembling Peter Sellers, he stormed into Madrid’s parliament on 23 February 1981 with heavily armed fellow Guard […]