The FNTT then called a two-day general strike, the objective of which was the transfer of the local head of the Civil Guard, whom they accused of supporting the owners and caciques resisting recently enacted social legislation.
[1] A new demonstration was called for 30 December and, although this time authorization was requested, the mayor did not grant permission, but in the end it was held without incident as the security forces did not intervene.
Gregorio Marañón published an article in El Sol in which he explained that the murders were the result of the inhumane conditions in which the Extremaduran day laborers lived, claiming that those who were truly responsible for the deaths were those that kept the peasants in a state of shameful misery and backwardness.
This was one of the arguments used by Luis Jiménez de Asúa, defense attorney for the defendants; but the court handed down six death sentences, later commuted to life imprisonment.
They threw insults and stones at the Civil Guard, which charged at the crowd on horseback with swords and gunfire, killing four and wounding thirteen, two of them women.