What the records say
- When
- 24 Jan 1977
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 40.41° N, 3.70° W
- Description
- The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1977 Atocha massacre.
1977 Atocha massacre
Far-right attack in Madrid, Spain
The 1977 Atocha massacre was an attack by right-wing extremists in the center of Madrid on 24 January 1977, which saw the assassination of five labor activists from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the workers' federation Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO). The act occurred within the wider context of far-right reaction to Spain's transition to constitutional democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “İspanya'nın başkenti Madrid'de Francisco Franco yanlısı aşırı sağ unsurlar tarafından silahlı terör saldırısı düzenlendi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Madrid dringt zur Zeit der Transition in Spanien ein bewaffnetes Kommando der Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista in Tötungsabsicht in ein gewerkschaftsnahes…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de militants communistes rue Atocha à Madrid”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “террористическая атака испанских ультраправых в Мадриде”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la calle de Atocha de Madrid (España), un grupo ultraderechista (la Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista) asesina a cinco abogados laboralistas de CCOO (Matanza…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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