Coripe is a city located in the
province of Seville
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, Spain. According to the 2006
census
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(
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), the city has a population of 1,436.
Demography
Culture
The village is known for the local ''Quema de Judas'' (
Burning of Judas
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in
English
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) holiday taking place on
Sunday of Resurrection. Every year, the town denizens parade, shoot and burn a rag doll representing a figure deemed "despicable" by the locals.
Past examples include convicted and incarcerated embezzlers
Rodrigo Rato
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and
Iñaki Urdangarín, celebrities romantically linked to the Royal House such as
Bárbara Rey
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Rey represented Spain at the 21st annual Miss World pageant under her ...
and
Eva Sannum,
and murderers such as
Ana Julia Quezada or
Miguel Carcaño.
The April 2019 Judas burning ritual featured a dummy representing former
Catalan President
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Carles Puigdemont
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; this choice, in the current volatile political climate and in the wake of the
2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis, brought the town to the spotlight in a highly controversial manner.
This controversy compounded earlier ones, particularly after complaints from several organizations such as ''Movimiento contra la Intolerancia'' (Movement against Intolerance) which claimed that these holidays could be considered as "
hate crimes
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".
References
External links
Coripe- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities of the Province of Seville
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