The events of Aznalcóllar are violent events that occurred on 29 and 30 March 1935 in the municipality of Aznalcóllar between falangistas of Seville and leftists of Aznalcollar.
On March 29, a group of four Falangists went to Aznalcóllar to sell and spread their magazine-ideario ARRIBA. There are discussions between members of the left and the Falangists, being stabbed Falangista Adrian Iruzta.
The next day 20 falangistas go to continue selling their magazine. There is a fight of more than two hours in which, due to a sting in the head, Falangist Manuel García Míguez, an immigrant Galician immigrant and industrial expert, falls to the ground, being shot off at close range. Also dies in the same confrontation the leftist who finished the falangista. The final balance is two dead and five injured.
After the withdrawal of the Sevillian people several Falangists were arrested in Sanlúcar la Mayor and imprisoned, and defended by José Antonio Primo de Rivera. They are charged with murder, and the prosecutor requests 14 years in prison for each. On October 5, three of the Falangists were sentenced to two years and eleven months in jail, and the others were acquitted.
The body of Manuel García Míguez was taken to the municipal cemetery in the rubbish cart of the town being subjected to insults, stoning and humiliation.
The Falange awarded an honorary medal to Manuel García Míguez, the only one posthumously awarded by the organization.
On May 12, 1935, published in issue no. 9 of Arriba magazine on the 16th, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, in a speech at El Gran Teatro de Córdoba, recalls these events to haranguing the crowd:
... That is our task: to educate one generation for the sacrifice provided that the others receive a larger homeland. I would almost say, not that we have achieved it, but we have succeeded: not two years ago we began, and already count our dead, our wounded, our prisoners ... In these days have died two great comrades, one in Salamanca, another in Salamanca Aznalcóllar; while we are here gathered, thirteen of us suffer prison in Sanlúcar la Mayor. Thus every day, a skeptical youth, lazy, is becoming a militant youth. Be assured that this momentum of ours will triumph in the end. Then we will see how many claim that they accompanied us from the beginning. We'll see how many rush to wear blue shirts. But the first ones, those of the difficult hours, will not be confused with these delayed shirts. They will smell gunpowder and lead scrape; but they will also have the virtue that the wings of empire emanate from their shoulders. "(Ovation.)
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