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The following is a list ofmassacres that have occurred inSpain (numbers may be approximate):
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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day of the Ditch [es] | 797[1] or 807[2] | Toledo | 400 - 700[3] | Emirate of Córdoba | 700 city notables massacred in a special ditch by Muslim army underAmrus ibn Yusuf |
| Martyrs of Córdoba | 851 | Cordoba | 48 | Emirate of Córdoba | Forty-eight Christians executed by Muslims |
| Cordoba massacre | 1013 | Cordoba | 2,000 | Berbers | Invading soldiers underSulayman ibn al-Hakam sacked and pillaged the city resulting in the deaths of many people and Jews.[4] |
| 1066 Granada massacre | 30 December 1066 | Granada | 4,000[5] | Muslim mob | Muslim mobs massacred Jews |
| Toledo massacre | 7 May 1355 | Toledo | 1,200 | Henry of Trastámara | Henry of Trastámara leads forces that kill 1,200 Jews in Toledo |
| Seville massacre | 6 June 1391 | Seville | 4,000 | Christian mob | Mob kills 4,000 Jews. |
| Córdoba massacre | June 1391 | Cordoba | 2,000 | Christian mob | Mob kills 2,000 Jews. |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galera massacre | 10 February 1570 | Galera | 2,500 | Spanish Army | Spanish Army underJohn of Austria massacres 2,500Moriscos. |
| Corpus de Sang | 7–10 June 1640 | Barcelona | 12–20 | Catalan peasants | Between 12 and 20 royal officials, including theViceroy of Catalonia, were killed by the rioters. The massacre was one of the first events of theReapers' War. |
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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dos de Mayo Uprising | 3 May 1808 | Madrid | 113 | Grande Armée | French Army underJoachim Murat executed 113 Spanish rebels |
| Siege of Badajoz (1812) | 6 April 1812 | Badajoz | 200–300 | Anglo-Portuguese Army | Marauding troops from theAnglo-Portuguese Army under the command ofEarl of Wellington kill between 200 and 300 Spanish civilians aftercapturing the city[6] |
| San Andrés beach mass execution | 11 December 1831 | Málaga | 49 | Spanish Army | 49 Liberal rebels, including their leaderJosé María de Torrijos y Uriarte, were executed extrajudicially by firing squad. |
| Massacre of Heredia | 17 March 1834 | Heredia | 118 | Carlists | Carlists execute 118Liberal prisoners of war. The massacre was ordered by generalTomás de Zumalacárregui.[7] |
| 1834 massacre of friars in Madrid | 17 July 1834 | Madrid | 73 | Anti-clericalliberals | Mobs assaulted and burned convents in the capital after a rumor spread that the friars had poisoned the water to favor the Carlist offensive. 73 friars were killed and 11 were injured.[8][9][10] |
| 1835 Anti-clerical riots | Summer 1835 | Aragón andCatalonia | 78 | Anti-clericalliberals | Mobs assaulted and burned monasteries, killing 70 friars and 8 priests. The most important mutinies happened inReus,Barcelona andZaragoza.[9][10] |
| Burjassot massacre | 29 March 1837 | Burjassot | 40 (around) | Carlists | Carlists execute governmental POWs, mostly cadets, reportedly amidst festivious celebrations, wining and dining[11] |
| Battle of Andoain | 14 September 1837 | Andoain | 60 | Carlists | Carlists permit the crowd to lynch 60British Auxiliary Legion prisoners of war |
| - [no specific name] | winter 1837/1838 | Beceite | 1,000 (not clear) | Carlists | following a few victorious battles in Aragon, Catalonia and Levante, Carlists gathered some 1,500 POWs. In November they were marched and incarcerated in the castle and other buildings in Beceite. As winter, usually harsh in this mountainous area, set in, prisoners were mostly neglected. Due to cold, sickness, hunger and mistreatment, there were some 10 POWs dying daily. There were cases of cannibalism.[12] |
| Calzada massacre | 27 February 1838 | Calzada de Calatrava | 150 (around) | Carlists | during combat for the city, at one point Liberal defenders (some with women and children) barricaded themselves in the Santa María del Valle church and rejected calls to give up. The Carlists brought artillery and started pounding the building. Anyone trying to flee or surrender was killed, the rest died in ruins of the burning and demolished church.[13] |
| Massacre of Guimerà | 19 September 1837 | Guimerà | 71 | liberals | governmental troops execute Carlist POWs[14] |
| Bombardment of Barcelona (1842) | 3 December 1842 | Barcelona | 20–30 | Spanish Army | The bombardment was ordered personally by generalBaldomero Espartero to end a revolt that started the previous month and had forced the army to take refuge inMontjuic Castle andParc de la Ciutadella. The indiscriminateartillery bombardment of the city was made fromMontjuïc, killing between 20 and 30 people.[15][16] |
| Martyrs of Carral | 26 April 1846 | Carral | 12 | Spanish Army | 12 rebel leaders of the failed1846 revolution were executed extrajudicially.[17][18] |
| Night of San Daniel | 10 April 1865 | Madrid | 14 | Guardia Civil Various units of theSpanish Army | TheGuardia Civil andSpanish Army brutally repressed a group of students of the Central University of Madrid that were protesting in support of the rector of said university. 14 students were killed and 193 were injured.[19][20] |
| Berga massacre | 27 March 1873 | Berga | 67 | Carlists | once the city has been captured, the formally commandingAlfonso Carlos pledged to respect lives of all POWs. However, once he left the city, thede facto commanderFrancisco Savalls ordered executions[21] |
| Enderlaza massacre | 4 June 1873 | Enderlaza | 34 | Carlists | following a few hours of Carlist siege of the Carabineros outpost at the border between Navarre and Gipuzkoa, the latter surrendered. The Carlist commander,Manuel Santa Cruz, claiming that defenders had earlier micheviously displayed white flags, ordered execution of all POWs |
| Cirauqui massacre | 12 July 1874 | Cirauqui | 36 | Carlists | following a few hours of combat for the town, eventually 62 liberal defenders, isolated in the church, surrendered. When leaving the building they were assaulted by the crowd, with apparently passive or perhaps even permissive attitude of Carlist commanders. During the carnage, 36 defenders have been lynched, mostly with canes or agricultural tools/[22] |
| Massacre of Olot | 15-30 July 1874 | Olot | 100 (unclear) | Carlists | having defeated liberal troops during the battle of Toix, Carlists then executed some 35 POWs. As the result of the battle, Olot surrendered without a fight. During some 2 weeks, Carlists kept killing officers, NCOs, customs officials and other functionaries[23] |
| Looting of Cuenca | 15/16 July 1874 | Cuenca | 40 (around) | Carlists | following earlier siege of the city, which lasted some 3 days, Carlist troops overpowered the defenders. During the following 2 days the victorious troops turned into pillaging gangs, killing POWs and looting the city. Earlier prints claimed 700 fatalities, yet there are some 40 fatal victims identified. "Saco de Cuenca" became the icon of Carlist barbarity, present in public narrative for some 50 years to come |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Tinto massacre | 4 February 1888 | Minas de Riotinto | 13 according to the official count, with some estimates claiming up to200[24][25] | Spanish Army | In the Plaza de la Constitución, around 200 people were shot dead by two companies of theSpanish Army when they protested for better wages and the end of the emission of toxic fumes in the mines. Protestors were mainly workers of the local mines, led by anarchist Maximiliano Tornet. The massacre lasted only 15 minutes and the bodies of the dead were probably buried under the slag of a mine. |
| Bombing of the Gran Teatro del Liceo | 7 November 1893 | Barcelona | 20[26] | Anarchist Santiago Salvador | On the opening night of the theatre season and during the second act of the operaGuillaume Tell by Rossini, two Orsini bombs were thrown into the stalls of the opera house. Only one of the bombs exploded; some twenty people were killed and many more were injured. The attack was the work of the anarchist Santiago Salvador and deeply shocked Barcelona, becoming a symbol of the turbulent social unrest of the time. The Liceu reopened its doors on 18 January 1894, but the seats occupied by those killed were not used for a number of years. |
| Bombing of the Corpus Christi procession in Barcelona | 7 June 1897 | Barcelona | 12[26][27] | Unidentified (forced confessions were made through torture)[28][29] | An Italian anarchist attacked the Corpus Christi procession, which had just left theChurch of Santa Maria del Mar, killing twelve people. The bombing led to theMontjuïc trial, in which about 400 suspects were arrested, from whom 87 were put on trial and, after confessions made under torture, five were executed. |
| A Coruña massacre | 30–31 May 1901 | A Coruña (Galicia) | 8[30][31] | Guardia Civil | TheGuardia Civil shot striking workers, killing 8.[32][33] |
| Carnival massacre in Vigo | 24 February 1903 | Vigo | 3 | Guardia Civil | Guardia Civil fired at a crowd of protesting workers during the localcarnival festivities, killing 3 people, including a 12-year-old.[34][35] |
| Morral affair | 31 May 1906 | Madrid | 24 | AnarchistMateu Morral | Attemptedregicide of Spanish KingAlfonso XIII and his bride,Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day. The attacker, Mateu Morral, acting on a desire to spur revolution, threw a bomb concealed in a flower bouquet from his hotel window as the King's procession passed, killing 24 bystanders and soldiers, wounding over 100 others, and leaving the royals unscathed. Morral sought refuge from republican journalistJosé Nakens but fled in the night toTorrejón de Ardoz, whose villagers reported him. Two days after the attack, militiamen accosted Morral, who killed one before killing himself. Morral was likely involved in a similar attack on the king a year prior. |
| Oseira massacre | 22 April 1909 | Parish of Oseira,San Cristovo de Cea (Galicia) | 7[36][37][38][39] | Guardia Civil | TheGuardia Civil shot residents who protested against the transfer of several artistic pieces of value from the local convent. |
| Nebra massacre | 12 October 1912 | Parish of Nebra,Porto do Son (Galicia) | 5[36][40][37] | Guardia Civil | Around 300 peasants were protesting in the bridge of Cans against a new tax ordered by the mayor to solve the local deficit. The Civil Guard fired indiscriminately at the demonstrators, killing 5 people and injuring 32. |
| El Descargador incidents | 7 March 1916 | La Unión, Murcia | 7 | Guardia Civil Regimiento de Infantería "Sevilla" n.º 33 of theSpanish Army | Guardia Civil and a unit of theSpanish Army opened fire at a crowd of striking workers inLa Unión, killing 7 and injuring 16.[41][42][43] |
| Repression of the1917 General Strike | August 1917 | Industrial and miner areas of the country | 71 | Guardia Civil Spanish Army | 71 workers were killed by theGuardia Civil and theSpanish Army during theGeneral Strike of 1917.[44] |
| Bread riots in Málaga | 9–21 January 1918 | Málaga | 4 | Guardia Civil | A popular revolt against an increase in bread prices was repressed by theGuardia Civil, causing 4 deaths.[45][46] |
| Bread riots in Ferrol | 9–15 March 1918 | Ferrolterra (Galicia) | 9 | Spanish Army Guardia Civil | A popular revolt against an increase in bread prices was repressed by theSpanish Army and theGuardia Civil, causing 9 deaths.[47][37] |
| Sofán massacre | 16 February 1919 | Parish of Sofán,Carballo (Galicia) | 4[36][40][37] | Guardia Civil | 4 peasant women were killed by theGuardia Civil. |
| Sobredo massacre | 28 November 1922 | Parish of Guillarei,Tui (Galicia) | 3[40][37] | Guardia Civil | 3 peasants were killed by theGuardia Civil during a protest against the semi-feudal land system that existed inGalicia at the time, the "foros",[a] that were finally abolished in 1926. |
| Pobla de Passanant massacre | 21 May 1928 | Pobla de Passanat,Catalonia | 10 | José Marimon Carles | Mass murder incident.[48][49] |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castilblanco events | 31 December 1931 | Castilblanco (Extremadura) | 4 | Local peasants affiliated with theUGT | 4 Civil Guards were lynched by local landless peasants affiliated with the National Federation of Land Workers (part of theUnión General de Trabajadores (UGT)).[50][51] |
| Arnedo incident | 5 January 1932 | Arnedo (La Rioja) | 11[52] | Guardia Civil | Local workers, organized by the socialist unionUGT launched a strike in a shoe factory. The Guardia Civil killed 11 and injured 30 during a protest, part of the strike, in the Plaza de la República.[53] |
| Casas Viejas incident | 11 January 1933 | Benalup-Casas Viejas | 24[54]-26[55] | Guardia de Asalto | Spanish police burned and shot 24 anarchists |
| Martyrs of Turon | October 1934 | Turón (Mieres) | 8 | Asturian revolutionaries | A group of eight De La Salle Brothers and a Passionist priest were executed by revolutionaries. They were canonized in 1999 by Pope John Paul II. |
| Repression after the failed 1934 Asturian revolution | October 1934 | Asturias | 200 | Spanish Legion Guardia Civil MoroccanRegulares | Around 200 individuals were killed in the repression following the failed revolution (among them the journalist Luis de Sirval, who pointed out tortures and executions and was arrested and killed by three officers of theLegion).[56][57] |
| "Martirs of Carbayín" | 22–24 October 1934 | Santa Marta Carbayín,Siero (Asturias) | 24 | Guardia Civil | 24 left-wing individuals were killed extrajudicially in the repression following the failed Asturian revolution after being tortured for days.[58] |
| Incidents during the funeral of Anastasio de los Reyes | 16 April 1936 | Madrid | 5 | Guardia de Asalto | Guardia de Asalto opened fire at the funeral procession of Anastasio de los Reyes, aGuardia Civil killed by left-wingers 2 days before, killing 5 people.[59] |
| Events of Yeste | 29 May 1936 | Yeste, Albacete | 18[b] | Guardia Civil | when escorting detainees theciviles were assaulted by a group of farmers and opened fire in return[60] |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Terror (Spain) | 1936–1939 | acrossSpain | 38,000–45,000 (scholarly consensus)[61][c] | Republicans | |
| White Terror (Spain) | 1936–1945 | acrossSpain | 150,000–250,000 (scholarly consensus)[d] | Nationalists | |
| 17 July Massacre of Melilla | 17 July 1936 | Melilla | 189 | Nationalists | The same day as thecoup d'état all the members of trade unions, left-wing parties, Masonic lodges and anyone known to have voted for thePopular Front were arrested. On the first night, the Nationalists executed 189 civilians and soldiers. This was the first massacre of the Civil War.[63] |
| Córdoba massacres during the first weeks of the war | 18 July – August 1936 | Córdoba | 2,000[64] | Nationalists | On 18 July, the military governor ofCórdoba, Ciriaco Cascajo, started thecoup in the city, bombing the civil government and arresting the civil governor, Rodríguez de León. After that, he and thecivil guard officer Bruno Ibañez,Don Bruno (sent there by generalQueipo de Llano, furious because no reprisals had been carried out yet), carried out a bloody repression, with 2,000 executions just in the first weeks. |
| Valladolid massacres | 19 July – September 1936 | Cemetery of El Carmen,Valladolid | 1,000 | Nationalists | Around 1,000 people were killed in the cemetery during the first months of the war.[65][66] There are 10 known mass graves in the cemetery.[67] |
| Zaragoza cemetery massacres | 19 July 1936 – April 1939 | Cemetery of Torrero,Zaragoza | 3,096 | Nationalists | 3,096 republicans were killed in the cemetery during the war in successive mass executions.[68] |
| Palencia massacres | 20 July 1936 – 1938 | Cemetery of El Carmen,Palencia | 497 | Nationalists | At least 497 people were killed in the Municipal Cemetery, mainly during the first months of the war, although some executions also happened in 1937 and 1938. Themass grave is known as theFosa de los Alcaldes.[69][70] |
| Beatos Mártires Claretianos de Barbastro | 20 July – 18 August 1936 | Barbastro (Aragón) | 51[71][72]-52[73] | Republicans | AnarchistCNT-AIT militias killed 51 or 52Claretians and seminarists in 5 successive mass executions. |
| Beatos Mártires Benedictinos de Barbastro | 20 July – 18 August 1936 | Barbastro (Aragón) | 18[74][75] | Republicans | 18Benedictine monks of the El Pueyo monastery killed by AnarchistCNT-AIT militias. |
| Bombing of Otxandio | 22 July 1936 | Otxandio (Bizkaia) | 57[76]-61[77] | Nationalists | 2Breguet XIX bombers attacked the main square ofOtxandio during the celebration of the "fiestas de Santa María", killing 57 or 61 people, almost all of them civilians.[78] |
| Seville massacres | 22 July 1936 – January 1937 | Seville | 3,028[79][80][81] | Nationalists | |
| Mass executions in the Cemetery of Granada | 23 July 1936 – 1 April 1939 | Granada | 5,000 | Nationalists | Around 5,000 people were killed in various mass-executions in theCemetery of San José (Grajada) during the war, most of them during the first year.[82] The most famous victim wasFederico García Lorca. After the war ended the cemetery continued being used as an execution site for political prisoners until 1956.[83] |
| Monte de Estépar massacres | 2 August – 12 October 1936 | Estépar,Province of Burgos | 371[84]–1,000[85] | Nationalists | Themass graves of Estépar (or of Mount Estépar) are a set of mass graves located in a hill near the village ofEstépar (Province of Burgos). In these places hundreds of people were killed and buried. It is documented and confirmed that 371 people were killed and buried there,[84] but some historians increase the figure to about 1,000.[85] Between 2 August, just two weeks after the start of the war, and on 12 October sixteen "sacas" were registered in the Prison of Burgos. In those "sacas" prisoners were taken to be extrajudicially executed and buried in hidden mass graves. |
| Mártires escolapios de Barbastro | 20 July – 18 August 1936 | Barbastro (Aragón) | 10 | Republicans | 10piarists were killed by AnarchistCNT-AIT militias.[86] |
| Mártires escolapios de Alcañiz | 20 July – 18 August 1936 | Alcañiz (Aragón) | 9 | Republicans | 9piarists were killed by AnarchistCNT-AIT militias.[86] |
| Executions of the ships España 3 and Sil | 14–15 August 1936 | Cartagena | 214[87]-215[88] | Republicans | Massacre of prisoners who were held in two prison ships in theport of Cartagena. |
| Almendralejo 14 August massacre | 14 August 1936 | Almendralejo (Extremadura) | 40 | Nationalists | 40 republican soldiers were executed after surrendering.[89] |
| 1936 Massacre of Badajoz | 15 August 1936 | Badajoz | 1,341[90]–4,000[91] | Nationalists | |
| Madrid Modelo Prison massacre | 22–23 August 1936 | Madrid | 24[92]–30[93] | Republicans | Anarchist militias entered the Modelo Prison and killed dozens of prisoners, including important rightwing figures such asRamón Álvarez Valdés,Melquíades Álvarez,Joaquín Fanjul orJosé María Albiñana. This, and other massacres by uncontrolled militias, led to a crisis in the Republican government, that was solved with the creation of thePopular Courts, that were expected to appease therevolutionary excesses and offer at least some judicial guarantees to the defendants.[94] |
| Estrella prison sacas | 5–24 September 1936 | Estella-Lizarra (Navarre) | 81 | Nationalists | 81 republican prisoners of theEstella prison were killed extrajudicially in 7 mass-executions.[95] |
| Plaza de Colón bombing | October 1936 | Madrid | 16 | Nationalists | 16 people dead and 60 wounded in Nationalist air raid againstMadrid. Six bombs detonated in the Plaza de Colón, in the middle of the city. One bomb fell into a queue of women waiting for milk. The air raid was made by German pilots in Junkers Ju 52s.Madrid had no air defenses to prevent enemy aircraft from flying over the city.[96] |
| Hernani mass executions | October 1936 | Hernani (Gipuzkoa) | 128–200[97][98] | Nationalists | Around 200 people were extrajudicially executed by firing squad at theHernani cemetery in October 1936. Among those executed there were priests, members of political parties and trade unions, pregnant women and even a 17-year-old. Virtually none of the victims had significant political responsibilities during the Republic.[97][99] |
| Tafalla prison saca | 17–21 November 1936 | Tafalla (Navarre) | 86 | Nationalists | 86 republican prisoners of theTafalla prison were killed extrajudicially in various mass-executions.[100][101] |
| Atlante prison-ship massacre | 18–20 November 1936 | Mahón (Minorca) | 75 | Republicans | 75 people (37 priests and monks, 37 civilians and military) imprisoned in theAtlante prison-ship, anchored inMahón, were killed by a mob as a revenge for a nationalist bombing over the city just hours before.[102][103] |
| Paracuellos massacres | November–December 1936 | Paracuellos del Jarama,Torrejón de Ardoz | 1,000–4,000[104][105][106] | Republicans | |
| Navas del Madroño massacre | 15 January 1937 | Cáceres | 68 | Nationalists | 68 residents of the town ofNavas del Madroño were arrested and killed by a squad ofCivil Guards andFalangists.[107][108] |
| La Fatarella incidents | 25 January 1937 | La Fatarella (Catalonia) | 23–34[109][110] | Republicans[e] | Peasants opposed to thecollectivizations of the anarcho-syndicalist unionCNT-AIT were executed by anarchists. The peasants were supported by other Republican organizations like the socialistUGT,Republican Left of Catalonia or theUnió de Rabassaires. The killings ended with the intervention of theGeneralitat and theGuardia de Asalto. This was one of the first conflicts between different republican factions. |
| Bilbao prisons massacre | 4 January 1937 | Bilbao | 224[111] | Republicans | A mob, formed mainly myUGT andCNT militias, assaulted the 5 prisons ofBilbao and massacred 224 national prisoners in revenge for a bombing that happened in the city that same morning.[112] |
| Málaga-Almería road massacre | 8 February 1937 | Málaga-Almería road | 3,000[113]–5,000[114] | Nationalists | |
| Málaga massacres | 8 February – December 1937 | Málaga | 2,300[115]–4,000[116][117] | Nationalists | After the fall of the city, nationalists took an enormous number of prisoners, with thousands of them being executed in the following weeks. |
| Bombing of Albacete | 19 February 1937 | Albacete | 150 | Nationalists | The NaziCondor Legion bombed the city, killing around 150 people.[118][119] |
| Bombing of Durango | 31 March 1937 | Durango | 248[120][121]–336[122] | Nationalists | German and Italian transport planes modified to carry bombs (GermanJu 52 and ItalianSavoia-Marchetti SM.81) from theCondor Legion[120] and theAviazione Legionaria bombedDurango in relays. Two churches were bombed during the celebration of mass, killing 14 nuns and the officiated priest. Furthermore,Heinkel He 51 fighters strafed fleeing civilians. Altogether, around 250 civilians died in the attack. |
| Bombing of Jaén | 1 April 1937 | Jaén | 159 | Nationalists | Six GermanJu 52 bombers of the GermanLegion Condor bombed the city,[123] which had nolegitimate military targets oranti-aircraft defenses. Current estimates indicated there were 159 deaths among the civilian population and several hundred injured, comparable with theBombing of Guernica, which occurred four weeks later. |
| Revenge killings of Jaén | 2–7 April 1937 | Jaén | 128 | Republicans | As a reprisal for theBombing of Jaén, the local republican authorities executed 128 Nationalist prisoners.[124] |
| Bombing of Guernica | 26 April 1937 | Gernika | 150–300[f] | Condor Legion | The city ofGernika was destroyed in a deliberate bombing against civilians. |
| Bombing of Sestao | 23 May 1937 | Sestao | 22–25 | Nationalists | NaziCondor Legion bombed the town in a deliberate attack against civilians.[125][126] |
| Bombardment of Almería | 31 May 1937 | Almería | 19–20 | Nationalists | TheKriegsmarine bombed the city in retaliation for a Republicanair attack on theGerman cruiser Deutschland. |
| July 1937 Bombing of Tarragona | 29 July 1937 | Tarragona | 51[127] | Nationalists | Bombing of civilians by the ItalianAviazione Legionaria. 51 people died and 104 were injured.[127] |
| 3 October bombing of Valencia | 3 October 1937 | Valencia | 50 | Nationalists | 5Savoia-Marchetti S.M.81 of the ItalianAviazione Legionaria bombed the city. 50 people died, 78 were injured and 160 buildings were destroyed.[128] |
| 1937 Bombing of Lleida | 2 November 1937 | Lleida | 150–300[129] | Nationalists | Bombing of civilians by the ItalianAviazione Legionaria. 48 of the dead were children studying in theLiceu Escolar de Lleida. |
| Christmas massacre of Cáceres | 2 November 1937 | Cáceres | 196 | Nationalists | Various mass-executions of high-profile Republican prisoners inCáceres, starting on Christmas Day and ending with 196 killed a few days later.[130][131] |
| 1938 January bombings of Barcelona | 1–30 January 1938 | Barcelona | 185–250 | Nationalists | First "terror bombings" overBarcelona, carried by the ItalianAviazione Legionaria.[132] The attacks caused 210 civilian deaths, injured 125 people and destroyed or damaged 87 buildings.[133] |
| January bombing of Valladolid | 25 January 1938 | Valladolid | 14 | Republicans | The Republican Airforce bombed the city, killing 14 civilians and injuring 70 people.[134][135] |
| Bombing of Alcañiz | 16–18 March 1938 | Alcañiz,Province of Teruel | 300–500 | Nationalists | The town was bombed by the Italian fascistAviazione Legionaria, deliberately targeting civilians.[136][137][138][139] |
| 1938 March bombings of Barcelona | 16–18 March 1938 | Barcelona | 1,000–1,300 | Nationalists | Barcelona was bombed by bombers of the ItalianAviazione Legionaria, the branch of the Italian Air Force fighting in the Spanish Civil War. The first raid came at 22:00 of 16 March by GermanHeinkel He 51s. After that, there were 17 air raids by the Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 andSavoia-Marchetti SM.81 bombers at three-hour intervals until 15:00 of 18 March. Barcelona had little anti-aircraft artillery and no fighter cover. Up to 1,300 people were killed and at least 2,000 wounded. |
| 1938 bombing of Lleida | 27 March 1938 | Lleida | 400 | Nationalists | The NaziCondor Legion bombed the city to demoralize the local civilian population,[140] causing around 400 deaths.[141][142] |
| Bombing of Alicante | 25 May 1938 | Alicante | 275–393 | Nationalists | Between seven and nine ItalianSM.79 andSM.81 bombers of theAviazione Legionaria bombed Alicante. The anti-aircraft artillery of the city was obsolete and the air-alarm system of the city did not work. The bombers dropped ninety bombs and many of them fell in the central market of the city. There were between 275 and 393 civilian deaths (100 men, 56 women, 10 children and more than 100 unidentified bodies), and 1000 wounded. |
| Bombing of Granollers | 31 May 1938 | Granollers,Catalonia | 100–224 | Nationalists | The ItalianAviazione Legionaria bombed the town. There were between 100 and 224 civilian deaths. |
| Bombing of Águilas | 3 August 1938 | Águilas (Region of Murcia) | 11 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of a civilian hospital. All the victims were women and children.[143] |
| Bombing of La Barceloneta | 16 September 1938 | La Barceloneta (Barcelona,Catalonia) | 31 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the neighborhood ofLa Barceloneta. All victims were civilians.[143] |
| Bombing of Alcoi | 20–23 September 1938 | Alcoi (Valencian Community) | 50 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the city that lasted 3 days. The main objective of the bombing were the local factories, many of the victims were workers.[144] |
| Bombing of Sant Vicenç de Calders | 8 October 1938 | Sant Vicenç de Calders (Catalonia) | 40–60 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the railway station. It was carried out at the behest ofFrancisco Franco'snationalist government by theAviazione Legionaria of itsFascist Italian allies. |
| Bombing of Dénia | 18 October 1938 | Dénia (Valencian Community) | 12 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the city.[145] |
| Bombing of Cabra | 7 November 1938 | Cabra,Andalusia | 101–109 | Republicans | ThreeTupolev SB bombers of theFARE, bombed the town. One of the bombs (200 kilograms) fell on the town's market, killing dozens of civilians. The aircraft dropped six tons of bombs. Most of the bombs exploded in the market and in the working class districts. There were between 101 and 109 civilians dead and 200 wounded |
| Bombings of Figueres | 27 January – 7 February 1939 | Figueres,Catalonia | 291–400[146] | Nationalists | The city was bombed 18 times in just 13 days. The bombings killed between 291 and 400 civilians and affected around 500 buildings, including schools, the local hospital and the local cemetery.[147] The attack did not have any military justification or aims.[148] |
| Bombing of La Garriga | 29 January 1939 | La Garriga,Catalonia | 13[149] | Nationalists | La Garriga was a tiny town of 10,000 inhabitants (among them 7,000 refugees fromMadrid and theBasque Country), without air defenses. On 28 January the retreatingLister's troops left the town and fled to the north and the following day ten ItalianSavoia-Marchetti bombers, bombed the town. On 29 January, the Italian bombers, attacked the town again. There were 13 civilian deaths, among them five refugees and seven children. |
| Bombing of Xàtiva | 29 January 1939 | Xàtiva,Valencian Community | 129 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the railway station. It was carried out at the behest ofFrancisco Franco'snationalist government by theAviazione Legionaria of itsFascist Italian allies. |
| Bombing of Sant Hilari Sacalm | 31 January 1939 | Sant Hilari Sacalm,Catalonia | 12 | Nationalists | Aerial bombing of the town. It was carried out at the behest ofFrancisco Franco'snationalist government by theAviazione Legionaria of itsFascist Italian allies. 12 people were killed.[150] |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Terror (Spain) (Killed after theWar) | 1939–1945 | acrossSpain | 58,000[151]–400,000[152][153] | Francoist regime | |
| Mass executions inEl Camp de la Bota | 1939–1952[g] | Sant Adrià de Besós (nearBarcelona) | 1,717 | Guardia Civil,Spanish Army andFalangists | Various mass executions were held in the area, after the end of theSpanish Civil War.[154] |
| Mass executions in the Cemetery of La Almudena | 1939–1944 | Madrid | 2,933 | Guardia Civil,Spanish Army andFalangists | Various mass executions were held in the cemetery after the end of theSpanish Civil War.[155] |
| Mass executions in Paterna | 1939–1956[h] | Paterna (Valencian Community) | 2,238 | Guardia Civil,Spanish Army andFalangists | Various mass executions were held in the local cemetery after the end of theSpanish Civil War, there are 70 common graves with the remains of those shot.[156][157] |
| Mass executions in the cemetery of Zaragoza | 1939–1946 | Zaragoza | 447[158] | Guardia Civil,Spanish Army andFalangists | Various mass executions were held in the cemetery after the end of theSpanish Civil War. During the war another 3,096 people had already been killed there.[158][159] |
| Mass executions in Gijón | 1939–1949 | Gijón | 408[160][i] | Guardia Civil,Spanish Army andFalangists | After the war 408 people were killed by the new regime in or around the city ofGijón. The bodies are buried in the common burials of Ceares/El Sucu. Another 1,526 republicans were killed (judicially or extrajudicially) during the war.[160] |
| Massacre of Alía | 16 August 1942 | Alía (Extremadura) | 24 | Guardia Civil | Extrajudicial execution of a group of people suspected of collaborating with theanti-Francoist guerrilla by agents of the Civil Guard. The victims were 24 inhabitants of the towns ofAlía andLa Calera, who were killed in a field near the first town.[161][162] |
| Massacre of Monroyo | 11 November 1947 | Monroyo (Aragón) | 6–8[163][164] | Guardia Civil | Extrajudicial execution of a group of people suspected of collaborating with the anti-Franco guerrilla by agents of the Civil Guard[165][166] |
| Massacre of Pozo Funeres | March and April 1948 | Pozu Funeres,Laviana (Asturias) | 9[167]-18[168] | Guardia Civil andFalangists | Extrajudicial executions of people suspected of collaborating with theanti-Francoist guerrilla byFalangists andGuardia Civil agents. The victims were nine militants and relatives of left-wing militants, who were killed near apit cave located in thePeñamayor range, known as the Pozu Funeres. The victims were then thrown into the cave.[169] |
| Massacre of Cortijo del Enjembraero | 1 February 1949 | Near the village of Helechal,Benquerencia de la Serena (Extremadura) | 4 | Guardia Civil | Extrajudicial execution of 4 peasants suspected of collaborating with theanti-Francoist guerrilla by agents of theGuardia Civil.[170][171][172] |
| Madrid spree | 19 and 21 July 1958 | Madrid | 5 | José María Jarabo | José María Jarabo kills four adults and an unborn baby[173] |
| Construction Strike of Granada | 21 July 1970 | Granada | 3 | Armed Police Corps | 3 construction workers were killed by theArmed Police.[174][175][176] |
| Alexander family murders | 16 December 1970 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife,Canary Islands | 3 | Frank Alexander, Harald Alexander | Frank Alexander, in the company of his father Harald, murdered his mother Dagmar and his sisters Petra and Marina Alexander |
| Ferrol incidents of 1972 | 10 March 1972 | Ferrol | 2 | Armed Police Corps | 2 workers (Amador Rey and Daniel Niebla, members of the clandestine unionCCOO) were killed by theArmed Police. Another 16 were injured by bullets, 160 workers were fired, 101 arrested, 60 incarcerated and 54 fined with between 50,000 and 250,000pesetas. 10 March is officially commemorated inGalicia as Day of the Galician Working Class.[177][178][179] |
| Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco | 20 December 1973 | Madrid | 3 | ETA | |
| Cafetería Rolando bombing | 13 September 1974 | Madrid | 13 | ETA political-military | The attack killed 13 people and wounded 71. |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitoria massacre | 3 March 1976 | Vitoria-Gasteiz | 5[180][181][182] | National Police Corps | More than 150 injured.[180][181][182] Another two people were killed in the protests against police violence after the incident, one inTarragona and another inBasauri.[183] |
| Montejurra massacre | 9 May 1976 | Montejurra mountain, nearEstella-Lizarra | 2 | Neofascists and theSpanish Secret Service | Two left-wing Carlist militants were killed and another three seriously wounded by right-wing gunmen at the annualCarlist Party celebration. |
| Assassination of Juan María de Araluce Villar | 4 October 1976 | San Sebastián | 5 | ETA | Three ETA members carrying pistols and submachine guns killed Araluce, the Government appointed President of the Provincial Deputation ofGipuzkoa and member of theCouncil of the Realm. Araluce's driver was killed in the attack together with three police guards.[184] Ten bystanders were also injured in the attack, which was ETA's deadliest of 1976. |
| 1977 Massacre of Atocha | 24 January 1977 | Madrid | 5[185] | Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista | 4 injured[185] |
| Assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea | 24 January 1977 | Gernika | 3 | ETA | Three ETA members carrying pistols and submachine guns killed Unceta, the Government appointed President of the Provincial Deputation ofBiscay and Mayor of Guernica.[186] He was ambushed as he arrived to play his weekly sports game. His two bodyguards, Antonio Hernández Fernández-Segura and Ángel Rivera Navarrón[187] were also killed in the attack. |
| Scala case | 15 January 1978 | Barcelona | 4 | Joaquín Gambín HernándezEl Grillo (Police confidant) | 4 workers (all victims were, members of theCNT themselves) were killed in an incendiary attack after a legal demonstration of theCNT in the center ofBarcelona. Originally, both the police and the media blamed theCNT and theanarchist movement, but in the trials (1980–1983) it was discovered that the culprit was a police confidant called Joaquín Gambín. TheCNT has always maintained that the attack was a frame-up by the police to stop its growth during theSpanish transition, a position supported by various researchers.[188][189][190][191][192][193] |
| Getxo attack | 22 October 1978 | Getxo | 3 | ETA | Gun attack by theBasque separatist organisationETA which occurred inGetxo, a suburb ofBilbao. 3Civil Guards were killed. |
| California 47 Café Attack | 26 May 1979 | Madrid | 9[194] | GRAPO (denied by GRAPO) | A bomb exploded in the Café California 47, in the center ofMadrid. 9 people died and 61 were injured. TwoFirst of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO) members were condemned in 1981 for the attack, although that organization has always denied that they were the authors of the bombing, blaming it onfar-right groups.[195] |
| July 1979 Madrid bombings | 29 July 1979 | Madrid | 7 | ETA political-military | Bomb attacks carried out byETA political-military (ETA-pm). The attacks, consisting of coordinated bombings inBarajas Airport and the train stations ofAtocha andChamartín, killed 7 people and injured a further 100. The bombings occurred a day after two attacks inBilbao andSan Sebastián, with both attacks killing two people. |
| Alonsotegi bombing | 20 January 1980 | Alonsotegi (Bizkaia) | 4 | Grupos Armados Españoles | Grupos Armados Españoles (GAE), an armed group operating in the Basque Country in the early years of the democratic transition, planted a bomb in a local bar which exploded that evening killing four civilians and wounding ten. The bar was targeted as it was thought to be a meeting point forBasque moderate nationalists in the area. No official inquiries have been made so far. |
| 1980 Bilbao bombing | 23 July 1980 | Bilbao | 3 | Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista | A bomb exploded in the Ametzola neighborhood of Bilbao. In the explosion, two teenagers died at the scene and an employee of the municipal cleaning service, was fatally injured. |
| 1980 Markina attack | 20 September 1980 | Markina-Xemein | 4 | ETA | Gun attack by theBasque separatist organisationETA near the town ofMarkina (Spanish:Marquina). The targets were a group of off-dutycivil guards who were having lunch in a bar. Four civil guards were killed. |
| Caso Almería | 10 May 1981 | Bilbao | 3 | Guardia Civil | Three young men were kidnapped, tortured and killed by civil guards who had confused them with members ofETA. Then, they shot them to pretend that they died in a supposed shooting. In 1984 amovie about the incident was released. |
| September 1982 Rentería attack | 14 September 1982 | Errenteria | 4 | ETA | Ambush by theBasque separatist organisationETA near the town ofErrenteria. The targets were several national police officers, four of whom were killed in the attack, with the fifth seriously injured.. |
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pasaia ambush | 22 March 1984 | NearPasaia (Basque Country) | 4 | National Police Corps | National Policeman ambushed five members of theComandos Autonomos Anticapitalistas and killed 4 of them.[196][197] |
| El Descanso bombing | 12 April 1985 | Madrid | 18 | Islamic Jihad Organization | The explosion caused the three-story building to collapse, crashing down on about 200 diners and employees, killing 18 people and injuring 82 others, including fifteen Americans working at the nearbyTorrejón Air Base who frequented the restaurant. |
| Plaza República Dominicana bombing | 14 July 1986 | Madrid | 11 | ETA | Bomb attack carried out by the armedBasque separatist groupETA, which killed 12 people and injured a further 32. The dead were all members of the Guardia Civil studying in the nearby traffic school on Príncipe de Vergara. The ETA members later convicted of participation in the attack included significant figures in the group such asAntonio Troitiño andIñaki de Juana Chaos. |
| 1987 Hipercor bombing | 19 June 1987 | Barcelona | 21 | ETA | Car bomb attack by theBasque separatist organisationETA which occurred at theHipercor shopping centre onAvinguda Meridiana. The bombing killed 21 people and injured 45, the deadliest attack in ETA's history. Controversy surrounded the timing of telephone warnings made before the attack and the authorities' response to them. |
| Zaragoza Barracks bombing | 11 December 1987 | Zaragoza | 11 | ETA | Car bomb attack by theBasque separatist organisationETA. A vehicle containing 250 kilograms ofammonal was parked beside the mainGuardia Civil barracks; its subsequent explosion caused the deaths of 11 people, including 5 children. A total of 88 people were injured, the majority of themcivilians. |
| Puerto Hurraco massacre | 26 August 1990 | Puerto Hurraco,Benquerencia de la Serena | 9 | Brothers Antonio and Emilio Izquierdo | Brothers Antonio and Emilio Izquierdo fired at people in the streets with two shotguns, killing nine and wounding at least six others. |
| Sabadell bombing | 8 December 1990 | Sabadell | 6 | ETA | Car bombing carried out by the armedBasque separatist groupETA. The target was a convoy carrying eight members of theNational Police force on the way to police afootball game betweenSabadell andMálaga CF. Six of the police officers were killed, with the other two injured. Several civilians were also injured in the attack. |
| 1991 Vic bombing | 29 May 1991 | Vic | 10 | ETA | Acar bomb, carrying more than 200 kg of explosive, exploded outside aCivil Guard barracks. The bombing killed 10 people, including five children, and injured 44 people. |
| Mutxamel bombing | 16 September 1991 | Mutxamel | 3 | ETA | Attempted car bombing byETA. However the bomb initially failed to explode near its target. The police treated the car as an abandoned vehicle, not realising that it contained a bomb and while being towed away, the car bomb exploded, killing two police officers and the civilian towing the car away. |
| 1992 Madrid bombing | 6 February 1992 | Madrid | 6 | ETA | Car bomb attack carried out by the armedBasque separatist groupETA which killed 5 people and injured a further 7. The target was a military vehicle transporting members of the army. The dead included threecaptains, a soldier driving the vehicle and a civilian working for the armed forces. |
| 1993 Madrid bombings | 21 June 1993 | Madrid | 7 | ETA | Car bomb attacks carried out by the armedBasque separatist groupETA, which killed 7 people and injured a further 29. The target was an army vehicle transporting members of the army. The dead included fourLieutenant colonels, aCommander, aSergeant and the civilian driver of the vehicle. |
| Puente de Vallecas bombing | 11 December 1995 | Madrid | 6 | ETA | Car bomb attack carried out by the armedBasque separatist groupETA in thePuente de Vallecas district ofMadrid, which killed 6 people and injured a further 19. The target was a camouflaged army vehicle which was transporting nine civilian employees of the army towards the nearby motorway. |
| October 2000 Madrid bombing | 30 October 2000 | Madrid | 3 | ETA | ETA detonated a largecar bomb on Arturo Soria avenue inMadrid. The blast killed three people; a Spanish Supreme Court judge, Francisco Querol Lombardero, his driver, and his bodyguard. One of the injured, a bus driver, died from his injuries days later. |
| 2004 Madrid train bombings | 11 March 2004 | Madrid | 193 | Al-Qaeda | 2,050 injured |
| Olot massacre | 14 December 2010 | Olot (Gerona) | 4[198] | Pere Puig Puntí | Mass murder incident. |
| Barcelona school killing | 20 April 2015 | Barcelona | 1 | A 13 years old student | 5 injured |
| Pioz murders | 17 August 2016 | Pioz,Castilla–La Mancha | 4 | Patrick Nogueira | |
| 2017 Barcelona attacks | 17 August 2017 | Barcelona | 16 | Jihadists | 16 victims and 8 terrorists dead. 152 injured |
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