[3] He worked as a baker in Zaragoza, where he soon became joined an anarchist direct action group, being credited with participating in 1920 in the assassination of the editor of the Heraldo de Aragón,[4] who was accused of betraying insurgent soldiers in the Carmen barracks.
When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed, he returned to Barcelona and joined the group Los indomables of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).
[4] Under the Law of Defense of the Republic he was arrested and on 21 January 1932 exiled to Villa Cisneros, on charges of having participated in the Alt Llobregat insurrection.
He was granted amnesty in September 1932, he then worked as a pastry chef and as a delegate for the National Confederation of Labor (CNT).
During the Spanish Civil War he was an assistant to Juan Garcia Oliver in the Committee of Antifascist Militias and marched to the Aragon front, where he was head of the Columna Ascaso,[6] taking places such as Barbastro, Grañén and Vicién.