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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939.
81 republican prisoners of the Estella prison were killed extrajudicially in 7 mass-executions. [84] Plaza de Colón bombing: October 1936 Madrid: 16 Nationalists 16 people dead and 60 wounded in Nationalist air raid against Madrid. Six bombs detonated in the Plaza de Colón, in the middle of the city. One bomb fell into a queue of women ...
Anselmo Gil Burgos, head of so-called Checa de Fuencarral, was first sentenced to death and had the sentence lowered to 30 years in prison. He was conditionally released in 1944. [137] The fate of some individuals is unknown. [138] After the war, the Spanish Ministerio Fiscal launched massive investigation into the Republican repression nationwide.
The ICC has publicly indicted 68 people. Proceedings against 35 are ongoing: 31 are at large as fugitives and four are on trial. Proceedings against 33 have been completed: three are serving sentences, seven have finished sentences, four have been acquitted, seven have had the charges against them dismissed, four have had the charges against them withdrawn, and eight have died before the ...
Span of crimes. 24 January – 18 March 2003 ... in the 31st Mech Regiment "Asturias" of Madrid and participated in ... be released in 2028 after 25 years in prison ...
In September 2010, the Argentine justice reopened a probe into crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and during Franco's reign. [88] Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, [89] the Council of Europe [90] and United Nations have asked the Spanish government to investigate the crimes of Franco's reign. [91]
Ruiz, Julius (2015), The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1107682931 Ruiz, Julius Ruiz (2007), "Defending the Republic: The García Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936", Journal of Contemporary History , 42 (1): 97– 115, doi : 10.1177/0022009407071625 , JSTOR ...
A Spanish court has ordered eight month prison sentences for three men who made racist remarks and gestures toward Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. at a La Liga match.