1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing

Name: 1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing
Start: 1896

1896 CE.

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The 1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing was an attack carried out on the Feast of Corpus Christi procession in Barcelona on 7 June 1896. The identity of the perpetrators is disputed: the attack was attributed to anarchists but this was a result of forced confessions through torture.

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