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6 unusual facts about Tragic Week


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.

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.

Evaristo Crespo Azorín

After the events known as Tragic Week in Barcelona, he was appointed Civil Governor of that province.

Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona

Following Tragic Week events in 1909 the force was demilitarized and officers are now armed with sidearms for personal defence.

Segismundo Moret

After the tragic events of the "Tragic Week" in 1909 in Barcelona he was again appointed prime minister after the resignation of Antonio Maura while he was also Minister of the Interior.



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