Cristino García Granda (6 March 1914 – 21 February 1946) was a fighter with the French Resistance in France during World War II. He was born in Gozón, Asturias, Spain and was executed by the Francoist regime. He took part in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the , a special unit of the Spanish Republican Army which performed attacks behind the Nationalist lines. After the war, he escaped to France where he was part of the French Resistance as a member of the (AGE, Spanish Guerilla Group). Highly successful in fighting the German occupiers (he took part in the Battle of Madeleine and in the attack of the prison in

Nîmes Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of 148,5 ...

), at the end of the war, he returned to Spain to work with Resistance groups ( Spanish Maquis) to oust '' caudillo''

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...

. Captured on 15 October 1945, he was tortured and was executed by firing squad on 21 February 1946. In Paris, the in Saint-Denis, next to the street of Émile Zola and the Joffre avenue in the 20th arrondissement, was named for him. The in Aubervilliers, Île-de-France, was also named after him. He is buried in the , southwest of Madrid.

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