Pau Sabater

Pau Sabater i Lliró (5 March 1884 in Algerri, province of Lleida – 17 July 1919 in Barcelona) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Catalonia.

He was killed by members of the gang of Manuel Bravo Portillo.

The murder of Manuel Bravo Portillo himself a few months later was interpreted as a revenge from unionists.

His funeral on 24 July 1919 was a huge demonstration of workers, with numerous riots across the entire Barcelona from the hospital to the cemetery at Montjuich.

[1] The trial for his murder, full of irregularities, took place on 10 and 11 May 1922; the only defendant, Luis Garcia Fernandez, was acquitted.