The Summer of the Innocents
Original title: El verano de los inocentes
A historical episode that must not be forgotten.
At dawn on September 27, 1975, the Franco regime closed its record of executions with the firing squad of five men convicted of terrorism. The last to be gunned down was Xosé Humberto Baena, a young Galician militant of the Antifascist and Patriotic Revolutionary Front (FRAP), accused—without evidence or witnesses—of killing a policeman on Alenza Street in Madrid. Did Franco execute the wrong man? Did Baena know the name of the real perpetrator of the attack? In this story there are no half-lights: everything is darkness, cloaked in secrets that for half a century have remained sealed by laws of impunity and pacts of silence.
A historical episode that must not be forgotten.
At dawn on September 27, 1975, the Franco regime closed its record of executions with the firing squad of five men convicted of terrorism. The last to be gunned down was Xosé Humberto Baena, a young Galician militant of the Antifascist and Patriotic Revolutionary Front (FRAP), accused—without evidence or witnesses—of killing a policeman on Alenza Street in Madrid. Did Franco execute the wrong man? Did Baena know the name of the real perpetrator of the attack? In this story there are no half-lights: everything is darkness, cloaked in secrets that for half a century have remained sealed by laws of impunity and pacts of silence.