He Barcelona has used the anniversary of the death of its former president Josep Sunyol i Garriga To remember to Francisco Franco. On August 6, 89 years ago, in 1936, the former president Blaugrana died “shot by fascism in the Sierra de Guadarrama.” This is how the Club has begun the reminder that was its president between July 1935 and August 1936.
«August 6, 1936, Today 89 years ago, Josep Sunyol I Garriga, president of the FC Barcelonawas shot by fascism in the Sierra de Guadarrama for its deep democratic and Catalan convictions. His tragic death was the prelude to one of the most difficult times for the club, ”says Barcelona in his official X profile, formerly Twitter.
Bridge He was a member of the independence party Republican Esquerra de Cataluña (ERC) and deputy of the Spanish Courts. During the Spanish Civil War, Sunyol had recently been appointed president of Barcelona and elected again deputy in the elections of February 1936. On August 6, 1936, the former president He was arrested and shot by Franco's troops in the Sierra de Guadarrama.
On August 6, 1936, today 89 years ago, Josep Sunyol I Garriga, president of FC Barcelona, was shot by fascism in the Sierra de Guadarrama for his deep democratic and catalan convictions. His tragic death was the prelude to one of the most difficult times … pic.twitter.com/X32uquVdHN
— FC Barcelona. August 6, 2025
He was traveling to visit the Republican Front, but when he got there he realized that those who had taken the Alto del León were the rebels. They arrested him and shot him immediately, along with his companions, for his republican and catalanist ideas. But the Barcelona, that now remembers Franco as “fascist,” He had a close collaboration with him during the following years and even gave him several decorations.
Barça decorates Franco
15 years after the death of Josep Sunyol, In 1951, Barcelona granted him the gold and brilliant badge Francisco Franco after his victory in the final of the Cup of Generalism against Real Sociedad. Agustí Montal Galabart, president of Barcelona at that time, took off his flap badge and gave it to Franco.
He October 13, 1971 The Board of Directors of Barça was received in a hearing by the dictator at the Pardo Palace, to thank the regime with collaboration in the construction of the Palau Blaugrana. That was why Montal gave Franco to a photo album of said construction and the Gold Medal of Palau Blaugranaan unprecedented decoration.
In 1974 Barça returned to Pardo to give the head of state the 75th anniversary gold medal. In addition, they had a bust in the offices of the club that broke in 1975 after Granados threw it to Jaume Rosell thinking that it was bronze, when in reality it was plaster. The two medals (1971 and 1974) were removed and declared without effect by the club's board in February 2019, that is, 83 years after the death of former Barça president and 44 years after Franco's death.
