Calvo Sotelo was the most important victim -and practically the last before the civil war- of the wave of political violence that broke out in Spain after the triumph of the Popular Front in the February 1936 elections which caused 384 deaths between February and July (111 deaths were caused by leftists, 122 by rightists -half by Falangists: 61- and 84 by the forces of law and order).

The crime was a reprisal for the assassination a few hours earlier of Lieutenant Castillo of the Assault Guard, well known for his commitment to the Socialists, whose militia he trained. The assassination of José Calvo Sotelo took place in Madrid, Spain, in the early morning of Monday, July 13, 1936, during the Second Spanish Republic, when a group of Assault Guards and members of the socialist militias led by a captain of the Civil Guard in civilian clothes showed up at the home of the monarchist leader José Calvo Sotelo with the pretext of taking him to the General Directorate of Security ( Spanish: Dirección General de Seguridad, DGS) and, on the way, the socialist Luis Cuenca Estevas shot him twice in the back of the head, and then took his body to the morgue of the Almudena Cemetery.

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