During the war he took charge of the Army of the center,[1] a unit that contained troops of the Nationalist faction from the Tagus River to Madrid, Guadarrama and the Universal Mountains.

For that reason, on 19 July 1936, he forcibly deposed General Molero and proclaimed a state of war in the Province of Valladolid and took control of the VII Organic Division and all its dependent territories.

[3] However, on 21 July, he was placed in charge of the II Military Region (Seville), replacing General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano.

In March 1941, he served as president of the Special Court for the Repression of Freemasonry and Communism,[4] a position he would hold until his death.

The judge declared Saliquet's criminal responsibility to be extinguished when he received reliable evidence of his death, which had occurred almost 50 years earlier.

The investigation of the case was so controversial that Garzón was accused of perverting the course of justice, which resulted in him being tried and acquitted by the Supreme Court.