From his grave, a dead musician in Spain has taunted the country’s finance minister.
Jose Maria Bejarano Martin challenged the minister thus: “Montoro, cabron, ahora ven y cobras” (Montoro, you bastard, now come and get your money).
The words directed at finance minister Cristobal Montoro in angry protest at the heavy weight of government tax.
They were inscribed permanently on his grave stone in the village of San Pedro de Latarce, in the Castille y Leon region of northern Spain.
Before he died in November last year at the age of 66, Mr Bejarano had long instructed his wife and six children of the message he wanted on his grave.
He had been a supporter of the conservative Popular Party, but that waned after the PP’s austerity measures took hold.
“He felt let down when they introduced public spending cuts and tax hikes that directly harmed his business - like raising VAT on cultural events to 21 per cent,” his son, Eduardo, told El Norte de Castilla newspaper.
Mr Berjarano died insolvent, after not being able to meet his tax and social security payments.
The mayor of the small village of 533 inhabitants said: “It shows that he never lost his sense of humour, even in difficult times.”
