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Emilio
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Emilio Izquierdo arrest.
Emilio Izquierdo arrest.
Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo
Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo
Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo
Antonio Izquierdo
Emilio Izquierdo
Their sisters, Luciana and Angela, who were acquitted of helping to plot the massacre,
died within a year
of each other at a psychiatric hospital, where
they lived for 15 years.
The root of the blood bath? A decades-old land
dispute between the Izquierdo family and their neighbours
in the
140-person hamlet of Puerto Hurraco, the Cabanillas. That dispute
blossomed into an outright feud
when the mother of Antonio and Emilio Izquierdo died in a suspicious fire at her home. The fire's cause
was
never determined, but the brothers blamed the Cabanillas family. The
massacre, in which two
Cabanillas children were killed, was their
revenge. Pictured Antonio Cabanillas.
The massacre in the southwest hamlet of Puerto
Hurraco, near Badajoz, became an embarrassing symbol
of the most
bloody veins of the country's history, what Spaniards refer to as
"Black Spain".
Puerto Hurraco
First, the brothers fired their shot guns in the
village's only artery, Carrera de Puerto Hurraco,
where 12-year-old Encarna Cabanillas and 14-year-old Antonia Cabanillas, were playing.
A
third sister, Maria del Carmen, narrowly escaped. She left the girls'
game just a minute
before the shooting.
Then the brothers took aim indiscriminately at the elderly
villagers, who sat on folding chairs along the street,
gossiping and
enjoying the scant afternoon breeze.
Funeral
Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo biography
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