Rafael Torres Escartín

Rafael Liberato Torres Escartín (20 December 1901 – 1939) was a Spanish anarchist militant.

Biography 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.

As a student in Huesca, he was introduced to anarchism by the anarchist painter and journalist Ramón Acín. He dropped out of school to become a pastry chef. From 1918 he was a member of Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), specifically in the food union, and left Huesca to live in Zaragoza.

Although at first he managed to flee from the police, Torres Escartín was arrested during a robbery at the Bank of Spain in Gijón and despite the fact that he managed to escape again, he was again arrested and sentenced to death. 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. Despite his mental state, Rafael was executed by a firing squad at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.