![]() ![]() Many of the prisoners were taken out of prison in so-called sacas (extractions), 33 in total, between November 7 and December 4, as the rebel Nationalist forces launched their assault on Madrid. The prisoners came under the control of the new Junta de Defensa de Madrid (Committee for the Defence of Madrid), an emergency committee left in charge of the city on November 7, after the democratically-elected Republican government, led by Francisco Largo Caballero, evacuated Madrid for its temporary capital, Valencia. Many of them had been captured during the failed rising of the Montaña barracks, in western Madrid. The death toll remains a subject of debate and controversy.Ībout 5,000 political prisoners and rebel military personnel had been incarcerated in Madrid since before the start of the war, in July 1936. ![]() The Paracuellos massacres ( Spanish: Matanzas de Paracuellos) were a series of mass killings of civilians and soldiers by the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War that took place before and during the Siege of Madrid during the early stages of the war. ![]()
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