Francisco Ferrer Guardia. Las reseñas policiales de un destacado anarquista.

Abstract

Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859 - 1909) was a freethinking activist of the time whose vital drift led him to later embrace anarchist assumptions and Freemasonry in the Logia La Verdad in Barcelona. In 1906, after the frustrated attack against Alfonso XIII in Madrid perpetrated by the anarchist Mateo Morral, Ferrer was arrested and tried on charges of being the ideologue of the plot, he was acquitted in 1907 and moved to France. In 1909 he returned to Spain and as a result of the events of the Tragic Week in Catalonia he was arrested and tried by a military court that sentenced him to the maximum sentence without the facts being proven. On October 13, 1909, Ferrer Guardia was shot in Montjuich. The two police reports on Ferrer Guardia found in a booklet by Professor Santiago Ramón y Cajal with a dedication to Professor Federico Olóriz Aguilera are described in this article.