Historia de Barcelona

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Cataluña comentó:

Prof. FRANCISCO FERRER, who was shot to death … by order of the Spanish throne, was a wealthy man, and scholarly. He was also a «philosophical» Anarchist. Illustrious Frenchmen sympathized with his practical aim to establish a republic in Spain, a republic he would force upon its people without their consent.

Y unos días más tarde hizo una comparación con el caso Dreyfus:

AN armchair philosopher, comfortably discussing the shooting of Prof. Francisco Ferrer by the Spanish soldiery, remarks that it is «absurd to call it a new Dreyfus case.» If not absurd, it is erroneous; for great as was the horror excited all over the world by the Dreyfus case, that horror did not extend to such length as the revulsion from Spain consequent upon Ferrer’s killing has done.

Un enemigo de Ferrer y la Escuela Moderna critica su fusilamiento:

No hi ha ningú més convençut que jo que l’execució del Sr. Ferrer i Guàrdia a conseqüència de la seva suposada participació en l’anomenada Setmana Tràgica de Barcelona … fou una monstruositat jurídica i un abús de poder enorme, que motivà molt justificadament la revolta dels homes amants de la veritat i de la justícia arreu del món, i contribuí a l’enderrocament, davant de la protesta universal que aixecà, del trist govern del Sr. Antoni Maura. (Terrorist group profiles)

Pero el Cataluña dice que hay poca reacción en Barcelona:

NO OUTBREAK IN BARCELONA.; Elaborate Precautions, However, Had Been Taken Against Bombs.

PARIS, Oct. 14. — A dispatch to the Matin from Barcelona says that the execution of Ferrer did not produce the effect expected. The Barcelona newspapers print brief details of the affair without comment. Ferrer was never popular in Barcelona, and latterly the censorship has been very stringent, so that the public is ignorant of the manifestations abroad or has been led to believe that they were organized and paid for with Ferrer’s money.

Pero hay disturbios en París:

RIOTS OVER FERRER SPREAD IN EUROPE; Anti-Spanish and Anti-Clerical Outbreaks in France, Italy, and Austria. VIENNA MOB IS FIRED ON Cavalry Charges Crowds in Florence and Milan — Bombs Found in Barcelona — Spanish Ships Boycotted.

PARIS, Oct. 14. — The demonstrations in protest at the execution of Ferrer were very marked throughout France to-day, and from reports received to-night they still continue. The Latin quarter here is seething, and several times during the evening a strong force of police scattered the manifestants. During the night students in the Latin quarter burned King Alfonso in effigy.

Y luego más bombas en Barcelona, mítines en Nueva York, revelaciones incómodas sobre el juicio, protestas de su hija, y comentarios bastante fuertes sobre la relación entre justicia y política en España del Cataluña.

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