Political assassinations

SPANISH CHARACTERS KILLED FOR POLITICAL

REASONS

Made by:- Rocío Cueto- Nuria Sola

- Throught out Spanish history,

there have been many events. Among them, we can stand out murders for political reasons. In this work, we are going to talk to Prim in 1870, until Carrero Blanco in 1973.

INTRODUCTION:

- Juan Prim (1870)- Antonio Cánovas (1897)- José Canalejas (1912)- Eduardo Dato (1921)- Luis Carrero (1973)

MAJOR HISTORICAL FIGURES

JUAN PRIM (1870)

- Spanish general- Beacause of different reasons, he offered

the throno to prince Amadeo de Saboya (Italian origin).

- He looked for intensefy the power of the figure of the king.

- He was attacked and died from the wounds the attacked caused him in 1870.

Juan Prim

- Prim's death was close to Paseo de Prado (Madrid) in December 1870. Only one year after acceding his post. When Prim left the Congress, his carriage was assaulted by assassins who were hidden in two rented cars. When Prim's carriage stopped armed bandits got down their cars and broke the carriage's window shooting him several times.

Juan Prim’s murder

ANTONIO CÁNOVAS DEL CASTILLO (1897)

- Spanish politician and historian- He was so important in the Bourbon

Restoration- He created 1876 Constitution- He was killed by Michele Angiolillo

Antonio Cánovas

- In 1897, Antonio Cánovas

del Castillo, president of theMinisters, went to take the waters tothe resort of Holy Águeda, in Mondragón, Guipuzcoa, where the assasain was waiting for him, registered with his name and as correspondent of Il Popolo of Italy, the anarchist MicheleAngiolillo, who shot him three times.

Antonio Cánovas’s murder

JOSÉ CANALEJAS MÉNDEZ (1912)

- Spanish lawyer and politician- He ruled the Liberal Party- He got a universal male suffrage- He was killed by an unknown man in

the street

José Canalejas

- José Canalejas

was going back to his house and stopped at the window of a bookstore. Then, a man approached the President from behind and pulled a gun and resting it on his shoulder made three shots causing him the death.

José Canalejas’s murder

EDUARDO DATO E IRADIER (1921)

- Conservative Spanish lawyer and

politician- He developed the first labor laws and

created the Ministry of Labour- His presidencies were marked by the

First World War, the crisis of 1917 and the Catalan gangsterism.

- He was murdered by three Catalan anarchists

Eduardo Dato

- He was murdered by three Catalan anarchists in the Independence Square. They knew the president's car travel and chased the vehicle on a motorcycle, then through the window, they shot the president.

Eduardo Dato’s murder

LUIS CARRERO BLANCO (1973)

- Spanish writer, soldier and politician- He held various positions during the

dictatorship of Franco. That dictatorship lasted almost 40 years

- He died victim of an ETA attempt

Luis Carrero

Carrero Blanco was on his way home after

hearing mass in the church of San Francisco de Borja in Madrid, and on arriving at Calle Claudio Coello, corner of Maldonado, a huge explosion, caused by members of ETA (José Ignacio Abaitua Gomeza and José Miguel Beñarán Ordeñana) launched the car he was traveling at a height of over twenty feet high causing his death and that of two others

Carrero Blanco’s murder

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