X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Enriqueta Martí


Enriqueta Martí

The authorities had the Tragic Week fresh in their minds and, out of the fear of a public riot, they calmed the public with newspaper articles explaining that in the famous list were the names of people to whom Enriqueta begged and that these families and personalities had been swindled by the lies and requests of the murderer.

By night she dressed in luxurious clothes, hats and wigs, and attended the El Liceu, the Casino de la Arrabassada and other places where the wealthy of Barcelona gathered.

He, in turn, communicated this to the chief of the Ribot brigade.

In the summer of 1909, the city suffered through an explosive, week-long, episode of civil unrest --the Tragic Week began as a general strike of the city proletariat, and later spiraled out of control, resulting in chaotic street fights with city police and the eventual occupation of the port city by national troops.

The investigation and the later discoveries showed to the public a series of macabre murders that shook a city that was recovering from the Tragic Week.



see also