Antonio Tejero

Antonio Tejero Molina ( born April 30, 1932 in Alhaurín el Grande, Málaga ) was lieutenant colonel of the Spanish Guardia Civil implicated in a failed coup ( since 1974) and in February 1981, the so-called 23 -F coup.

Tejero occurred in 1951 in the Guardia Civil and brought it to the head of the commanderies in San Sebastián, Vitoria and Málaga. Already repeated earlier because of disobedience to disciplinary action (including disciplinary arrest ), he was removed as a result of even -handedness of his post in Málaga. At the time of the attempted coup in February 1981, he was commander of the Third Military Region.

Operación Galaxia

On November 11, 1978 Tejero was involved in the conspiracy " Operación Galaxia " and it was made ​​on May 8 Prior to 1980, a military court and sentenced to seven months and one day disciplinary arrest. A degradation but not carried out.

The 23 -F coup

On February 23, 1981 entered Tejero, accompanied by members of the Guardia Civil, during the establishment of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo - head of government, the Parliament and established the incumbent government and the deputies. When he saw that his coup failed, he surrendered and was arrested. This coup is in Spain also called 23-F. Tejero was tried, sentenced to 30 years in prison for a ringleader and had to leave the Guardia Civil. He participated in the 1982 unsuccessfully for an entity created under his leadership right party called Frente de Solidaridad de España in the elections in part to gain immunity. The party received 0.14 percent of the vote, and soon ceased to exist.

As of September 1993, he came into the open detention enforcement; in December 1996 his sentence was suspended and Tejero released as the last coup participants on 2 December 1996 from prison. He lives with his son near Málaga.

Recently he made in early 2006 by a letter to the editor of the newspaper Melilla Hoy attention to himself, in which he criticized the Catalan Statute of Autonomy.