Francisco
Ascaso was
born in Spain. Ascaso worked as a carpenter
and later became an anarchist.
With Juan
Garcia Oliver and Buenaventura
Durruti, Ascaso helped establish the Solidarios
group in 1919. Two years later members of the group were involved
in the murder of Eduardo Dato, the Spanish prime minister. In 1923
the group assassinated Juan Soldevila Romero, the Archbishop of Sargossa,
in revenge for the murder by the police of Salvador Segui, a CNT
leader.
Ascaso
and Buenaventura Durruti
fled to France in June 1923. In protest against
the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera,
Durruti took part in the border raid at Vera del Bidosa on 6th November,
1924.
On
the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Ascaso
helped establish the Antifascist
Militias Committee in Barcelona.
He
was killed in the early days of the fighting.
His brother,
Domingo Ascaso, also an anarchist,
was killed during the May Riots in 1937.
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