Pascual Fresquet Llopis

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Pascual Fresquet
Native name
Pascual Fresquet Llopis
Born(1907-01-06)6 January 1907
Alcalà de Xivert, Baix Maestrat, Castellón, Valencia, Spain
Died14 August 1957(1957-08-14) (aged 50)
Aubanha, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
France
Allegiance CNT-FAI
Service Confederal militias
Years of service1936
UnitSouth Ebro Column
CommandsBrigade of Death
Battles / warsSpanish Civil War

Pascual Fresquet Llopis (Alcalà de Xivert, 6 January 1907 – 14 August 1957) was a Valencian libertarian communist and the leader of the Death Brigade.

Biography

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Pascual Fresquet Llopis was born in 1907 in Alcalà de Xivert. As a child his family emigrated to La Torrassa, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat district, which was made up of a working population that was mostly affiliated with the CNT. His parents worked on the Barcelona Metro and his mother, Purificación Llopis, ran an inn on Carrer Sugranyes. Fresquet was the president of the CNT construction union in the Sants neighborhood in 1936.[1]

With the outbreak of the war, he came to command the Brigade of Death, a unit linked to the FAI that was responsible for more than 200 murders between July and September 1936.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Cambra, Lali (26 July 2008). "Tras la Brigada de la Muerte". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ Orensanz, Toni (14 January 2009). "La Presentación del libro "L'ÒMNIBUS DE LA MORT" del TONI ORENSANZ en Libreria Serret el pasado dia 6 de diciembre y las "Brigadas de la Muerte" en Aragón" (in Spanish). Llibreria Serret. Retrieved 11 December 2020.

Bibliography

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  • Orensanz, Toni. "La Brigada de la Muerte" (in Spanish). No. 70. Barcelona: Sàpiens. p. 32.
  • Orensanz, Toni (2008). L'òmnibus de la mort: parada Falset (in Catalan). Barcelona: Ara Llibres.