A group of young people demolished the Cabo Quilates Cross in Baracaldo in the early morning of the 23rd of March and uploaded it to social media. Although the major had also decided to demolish the monument under the "Historical Memory Law", he rejected the illegal actions of the group. The Historical Memory Law has been used across Spain to demolish several religious symbols and Christian crosses that were created in the context of the Spanish Civil War.
The cross commemorated the 96 people killed in 1936 by the Popular Front on the ship Cabo Quilates, which was used as a prison at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Among the victims were 16 religious martyrs, three of whom were beatified in 2013.
According to the organisation Religión en Libertad, the youth were members of the political party Ernai, they also disseminated a propaganda video of their actions on social networks.