Pascual Fresquet Llopis

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fresquet and the second or maternal family name is Llopis.

Pascual Fresquet
Native name	Pascual Fresquet Llopis
Born	(1907-01-06)6 January 1907 Alcalà de Xivert, Baix Maestrat, Castellón, Valencia, Spain
Died	14 August 1957(1957-08-14) (aged 50) Aubanha, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Allegiance	CNT-FAI
Service	Confederal militias
Years of service	1936
Unit	South Ebro Column
Commands	Brigade of Death
Battles / wars	Spanish Civil War

Pascual Fresquet Llopis (Alcalà de Xivert, 6 January 1907 – 14 August 1957) was a Valencian libertarian communist and the leader of the Death Brigade.

Biography

Pascual Fresquet Llopis was born in 1907 in Alcalà de Xivert. As a child his family emigrated to La Torrassa, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat district, which was made up of a working population that was mostly affiliated with the CNT. His parents worked on the Barcelona Metro and his mother, Purificación Llopis, ran an inn on Carrer Sugranyes. Fresquet was the president of the CNT construction union in the Sants neighborhood in 1936.

With the outbreak of the war, he came to command the Brigade of Death, a unit linked to the FAI that was responsible for more than 200 murders between July and September 1936.

Bibliography

• Orensanz, Toni. "La Brigada de la Muerte" (in Spanish). No. 70. Barcelona: Sàpiens. p. 32.
• Orensanz, Toni (2008). L'òmnibus de la mort: parada Falset (in Catalan). Barcelona: Ara Llibres.