The son of Pedro Torres Marco and Orencia Escartín Villacampa, Rafael was born in the Bailo barracks of Guardia Civil, where his father was stationed.
From 1918 he was a member of Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT),[2] specifically in the food union, and left Huesca to live in Zaragoza.
[1] In Zaragoza he joined the anarchist group Crisol, that would later be called Los Solidarios, made up of prominent figures in anarchism such as Buenaventura Durruti or Francisco Ascaso.
On June 4, Rafael Torres Escartín, together with Francisco Ascaso, assassinated the cardinal with twenty shots in his car, leaving his driver seriously injured.
As a result, Torres Escartín went mad during his stay in the Santoña prison, and his sentence was commuted to an insane asylum in Reus in 1931.