Hundreds of left recruited against their will at the Francoist Sanjurjo Tertiary were imprisoned in Zaragoza
02 October 1936,
Hundreds of leftists recruited against their will at the Francoist Sanjurjo Tertiary were imprisoned in Zaragoza. 700 people, mostly from Navarre, were sent to Zaragoza to be sent to the instruction in favor of Franco. They trained for a month and in October, when they had to lead, there was a rumor that they were going to desert. As a result, they ordered him to turn around and were again arrested at the Zaragoza headquarters. No more, the soldiers began to execute. The massacre lasted ten days and more than 300 people were killed, 218 of whom were identified by the Altaffaylla Cultural Association.
There are testimonies such as that of Anselmo Polanco, bishop of Teruel. Pepe Melero states that "from the balcony of the Episcopal Palace, without doing anything, he saw the parade of Third Sanjurjo through the city the first days of the Civil War. Francoist soldiers carried at the tip of their bayonets ears, noses and other parts of the Republican prisoners' body, considering the event as a natural abuse of any war."
Source:
Josu Chueca and Luis Fernández, Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country. (Euskaldunon Egunkaria)
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