Salvador Puig Antich

Who was Salvador Puig Antich?

Salvador Puig Antich was an anarchist, born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and active during the 1960s. A member of the Iberian Liberation Movement, he was executed by the Francoist regime after being tried by a military tribunal and found guilty of the death of a Guardia Civil. His execution was very unpopular; the Catalan painter Antoni Tàpies made a series of lithographs called "Assassins" and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour of Puig Antich's memory. The Groupes d'action révolutionnaire internationalistes were formed after his death.