Paulí Pallàs (1862–October 6, 1893) was a Spanish

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

and typesetter who carried out an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Catalan captain general

Arsenio Martínez Campos Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón, born Martínez y Campos (14 December 1831, in Segovia, Spain – 23 September 1900, in Zarauz, Spain), was a Spanish officer who rose against the First Spanish Republic in a military revolution in 1874 and res ...

Life

Paulino Pallás was born in 1862 in

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. He moved to

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, where he became an

anarchist communist Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ''ancom'' or ''ancomm'') is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private property but retains re ...

. He became involved with the Brazilian revolutionary movement in 1891 and in May 1892, he threw a bomb into the

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Alcantara Theater. He returned to Spain in October.

Martínez Campos bombing

In 1893, he unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Catalonia Captain General

, which ended in Pallás's execution. Martínez Campos had been responsible for violently repressing the January 1892

Jerez uprising The Jerez uprising was a 1892 peasant rebellion in Jerez, Spain. While the event itself was unexceptional amid the regional history of rebellions, the disproportionate repression following the uprising resulted in a series of protests and retal ...

and execution of four

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anarchists. In revenge, on September 24, 1893, Pallás threw two bombs at Martínez Campos, but missed and killed at least two bystanders. Martínez Campos suffered minor injuries. Pallàs did not seek to escape. After being tried by a

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, Pallás was executed by

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on October 6, 1893. His final words were, "The vengeance will be terrible." A month later, his friend would avenge Pallás's death with the

Liceu bombing The Liceu bombing attack, in which an anarchist threw two bombs from the balcony of Barcelona's Liceu opera house, killed 20 people on November 7, 1893. The bombing was in response to the 1893 execution of Paulí Pallàs following his assassin ...

, killing over a dozen.

Life

Martínez Campos bombing

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