On February 24, 1937, the Republican mayor of Palma, Emili Darder, was executed. Even by the absence of standards and humanity during the Civil War, his shooting was a particular abomination. He was gravely ill, so much so that he had to sit on a stone as he couldn’t stand. Then they fired their bullets into him.
Darder’s name is the one most associated with the executions of that day. There were four in all in the cemetery in Palma. One of them Antoni Maria Ques Ventayol.
He was born in
Alcudia in 1889. His father knew the father of Joan March. This connection was to lead to Antoni Ques becoming an associate of March. He was closely involved with the shipping company Trasmediterranea and with Banca March.
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