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The mayor of Algeciras receives the Group of Regulars from Ceuta before the Ecce Homo procession

The mayor of Algeciras, Jose Ignacio Landaluceaccompanied by a large part of the Municipal Corporation, received at the City Hall the Group of Regulars of Ceuta number 54, headed by its head, Colonel Jose Maria Moro Sanjuan.

Also present at the event were the head of the Civil Guard Command, Francisco Almansa Aguilar; the naval commander of Algeciras, Juan Carlos Garcia Velo; the chief commissioner of the National Police Corps in Algeciras, Francisco Lopez Matesanz; the Superintendent of the Local Police, Angel Gutierrez Villalobos; the director of the military residence Fort Santiago, lieutenant colonel Juan Carlos del Pino Mancilla; the sub-delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucía in Campo de Gibraltar, Eve Haystacks; the coordinator of the General State Administration in Campo de Gibraltar, Francis Gil Sanchez; the delegate in Campo de Gibraltar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Juan Jose Sanz Aparicio; the president of the Local Council of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods, Manuel Delgado Hill; as well as the Big Brother of the Brotherhood of Ecce Homo, Juan Enrique del Rio Barranco.



The Group of Regulars will accompany on the day of this Holy Wednesday, the Brotherhood of Penitence of Jesus in its Presentation to the People (Behold the man), Most Holy Mary of the Star, Queen of Peace (Ecce-Mater Tua) and Saint Joseph, Patron of the Family, who will depart at 6:30 p.m. from the Parish of San José de las Colinasbeing the first time that processions with said institution.

By distributions, they will form a squad of spendthrifts composed of eight soldiers, a section of Regulars under the command of a lieutenant, accompanied by a bugler, a pennant, three non-commissioned officers and 24 military troops, plus 34 members of the Nuba the war band.

The mayor has declared that “for Algeciras it is a absolute pride to be able to receive with the doors of the heart and with open arms those who make up the most successful unit of the Spanish Armed Forcesto those who represent the most determined effort to protect national sovereignty, to those who have consecrated their lives to defending those of others”, before adding that “today, with the presence in Algeciras of the men and women who serve under his command , is written one of the most outstanding pages of the golden book of the history of Algeciras. And that is precisely what we all want: that the relationship between the city and the group of regulars from Ceuta, between the group of regulars from Ceuta and the city, be strengthened and maintained forever”.

For his part, Colonel Jose Maria Moro thanked “the city of Algeciras for its hospitality, this being a very special corner for us since it is the gateway every time we go to the Peninsula to carry out our manoeuvres”.

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