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Description
Born in: Castilla y León
Age: 65
Offspring: 5Marital status: Married
Job: Politician, former mayor of Barcelona
Date of the attack: 25/01/1978
Place of the attack: Barcelona
Guilties: Carlos Sastre, líder del Exèrcit Popular Català (EPOCA), junto con otros dos hombres y una mujer.
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: EPOCA
Description
At 8:30 am on 26 January 1978, three men and a woman, all members of the Exèrcit Popular Català (Catalan People’s Army, EPOCA) entered the home of the Viola Tarragona family. Armed with pistols and machine guns, they tied up all the members of the family who were present at the time.
They gave Joaquín Viola Sauret a piece of paper demanding a sum of money and attached a bomb to his chest, giving him instruction on how to disable it once the money had been handed over. However, the bomb mechanism misfired and it exploded, killing Joaquín and his wife Montserrat Tarragona Corbella. In 1987, the leader of EPOCA, Carlos Sastre, was found guilty of the double murder.
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