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Der Internationale Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) am 27. Januar wurde im Jahr 2005 von den Vereinten Nationen zum Gedenken an den Holocaust und den 60. Jahrestag der Befreiung des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz-Birkenau eingeführt. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January was established by the United Nations in 2005 to commemorate the Holocaust and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Der Internationale Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) am 27. Januar wurde im Jahr 2005 von den Vereinten Nationen zum Gedenken an den Holocaust und den 60. Jahrestag der Befreiung des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz-Birkenau eingeführt. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January was established by the United Nations in 2005 to commemorate the Holocaust and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Some how this country of fine wine and style has to come to terms with yet another senseless terrorist outrage on their soil. Bastille Day can never be the same for them again. God give those beleaguered souls strength to get through this savage trial and the harrowing days to come.
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On this, the 7th anniversary of one of the most tragic events in the history of our Nation, don't forget the devastation that this photo illustrates. This was the result of terrorism, senseless mass murder.
In memory of the innocents lives that were affected. We should never forget the heroes of that day. Our own people who died and those who risked their lives for others.
I was taking pictures in the Memorial when suddenly i heard a guy close to me who was upset. He was watching the big wall of dead people, and discovered a Neighbor on one of it...
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of an estimated 800,000 people. During 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through July, at least 800,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
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"Most of Malin’s Jews were shot in the course of a number of murder operations during August and September 1942 by members of Zonderkommando 4a. Among the victims were children and old people. According to Soviet reports, the Jews who were shot (numbering between 670 and 1,000) were buried in five mass graves in the area of Shcherbov Yar."
In memory of all victims of daesh, not only in Paris, but also in Ankara, the Sinaï, Beirut and all other places!
But, anyhow, I'm not afraid and I'm determent to live my life as I want to!
Because if people yield for tyranny, they lose more than life and body, than the light will dim. (free to a poem of H.M. van Randwijk)
Drawing in flag: Jean Jullien.
"Most of Malin’s Jews were shot in the course of a number of murder operations during August and September 1942 by members of Zonderkommando 4a. Among the victims were children and old people. According to Soviet reports, the Jews who were shot (numbering between 670 and 1,000) were buried in five mass graves in the area of Shcherbov Yar."
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Fotografia feta amb una Rolleicord 1a "Polizei" (K3-541), fabricada per a la policia alemana el 1939; Carl Zeiss Triotar f3.5/75mm; Ilford FP4+ revelat amb HC110, dissolució b, durant 6 minuts.
Aquí, a Casa Corona, Marimon atacà a Rosa Aloi, que estava cosint a l'entrada, i la ferí mortalment al cap amb la destral. A prop hi havia la nena Ramona Rabadà, de 4 anys, que fugí cap al carrer, però fou atrapada i morta per l'assassí al cobert del davant. La casa de la cantonada és on havia començat la matança al primer paller.
La Pobla de Ferran a la primavera pot semblar un raconet rural idilic. Però durant una tarda de 1928, fou un autentic infern de matança i tragedia.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 19 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 21 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 21 de maig de 1928.
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Picture taken with a Rolleicord 1a "Polizei" (K3-541), made for the German police in 1939; Carl Zeiss Triotar f3.5/75mm; Ilford FP4+ home developed with HC110, dilution b, for 6 minutes.
Here, at Casa Corona, Marimon attacked Rosa Aloi, who was sewing in the entrance, and fatally wounded her in the head with the axe. Nearby was the 4-year-old girl Ramona Rabadà, who fled into the street, but was caught and killed by the murderer in the front shed. The house on the corner is where the massacre had begun in the first barn.
La Pobla de Ferran in the spring may seem like an idyllic rural corner in Western Catalonia. But during an afternoon in 1928, it was a real hell of slaughter and tragedy.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever lay here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school in the village of Passanant, 2 km away), and Josep Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 21st took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 21, 1928.
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Here the news in The Times of 1928:
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De tout temps et tous lieux, la fosse commune a été la destination inéluctable de toutes les utopies collectivistes poussées à leurs plus extrêmes expressions.
In early August 1944 the Germans carried out mass executions at this site in which a total of approximately 200 people were murdered. They also burned the corpses, as well as the bodies of people they had murdered elsewhere....
Tchorek plaques: stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/160904663281/tchorek-plaque
The Wola massacre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wola_massacre
Three women were sitting together drinking coffee on a lovely peaceful afternoon.
They talked about their husbands, lovers, sons and men in general.
They soon became bitter somehow.
They remembered the role of men in history.
The women remembered the thin, almost transparent layer of cultural civilization. Alcohol and group gathering and a bogeyman too often showed the ugly face of the forgotten malignancy of that angry chimpanzee underneath that layer.
As hooligans they hardly recognized their sons and men again.
The sons, who were second-born (the third and fourth sons aso.), had to leave the farm and home to seek their fortune and fame and a (new) empire in the world.
The woman remembered the vulnerability of their sons to ideologies and religions, their black and white thinking, their simple solutions and their intolerant and bloody "us and them", to achieve their merciless goals.
How easily they could be seduced by cynical old men, who always let the young suicide bombers go first into that promised land in the afterlife, which had not ever been seen by nobody, ever and never. ;-)
The desperate women thought about the wars and the rapes, mass killings, and the crusades, the Holocaust, the genocides, the general racism in this world.
They thought of the crime statistics, the severity of the crimes that have been committed by men and will be in future.
The prisoners, guards, judges and lawyers, the police and politicians, investment bankers and the tax dodgers.
They had to think about the men of religions and their misogyny.
They thought of the testosterone in general.
Or was it just a problem of the youth bulges and not religions, tribal feuds and poverty as main reasons responsible for the escalation of terrorism?
Is the oversized proportion of the male youth in the total population to blame for the deadly fights?
Do religions and ideologies only provide the necessary disinhibition to kill for the future world warrior?
Even terrorists need a justification, so that they can sleep better.
They want to kill for a "better" peaceful world, how perverse is that???
The list and the questions seemed endless.
The three women were moaning deeply, a moan so deep and old as mankind itself.
So much pain in the world!
The women did not have the arrogance to believe that they had considered everything, but what had occurred to them was bad enough, wasn`t it?
Then suddenly they had an idea, a brilliant idea they thought:
Fast, repeated cuts, in order to reduce the "Imaginary Heroes" to their right measurement.
The only infirmity of this argument was, that every son has got a mother ;-)
Even if it was just a daydream, men do not fall asleep too tight tonight and the nights after, the woman of the world could wake up very soon before you do ;-).
Monument outside the Bykivnia Graves, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. This was where the Soviets shot thousands of vicitims as they attempted to do communism 'the right way'
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Mireu l'album per coneixer tota la historia de La Pobla de Ferran aquell 1928.
La Pobla de Ferran a la primavera pot semblar un raconet rural idilic. Però durant una tarda de 1928, fou un autentic infern de matança i tragedia.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 19 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 21 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 21 de maig de 1928.
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La Pobla de Ferran in the spring may seem like an idyllic rural corner in Western Catalonia. But during an afternoon in 1928, it was a real hell of slaughter and tragedy.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever lay here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school in the village of Passanant, 2 km away), and Josep Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 21st took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 21, 1928.
An estimated 25,000 protestors rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza calling on lawmakers throughout the nation to further restrict access to firearms. 'March For Our Lives' is a national movement spurred by the mass murder of 14 students and 3 teachers on Valentine’s Day, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.
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Aquí podeu veure La Pobla de Ferran des del sud-oest, des de la carretera que va de Ciutadilla a Passanant. Es la primera vista que hom té del lloc. I probablement fou també la última que en tingué l'assasí Josep Marimon, ja que fugí en aquesta direcció.
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La Pobla de Ferran a la primavera pot semblar un raconet rural idilic. Però durant una tarda de 1928, fou un autentic infern de matança i tragedia.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 19 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 19 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 19 de maig de 1928.
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Here you can see the hamlet of La Pobla de Ferran from the south-west, just by the road from Ciutadilla to Passanant. It's the first view you have of the hamlet. And probably was the last glimpse of it that the assassin Josep Marimon had, when he fled the scene of his crimes.
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La Pobla de Ferran in the spring may seem like an idyllic rural corner in Western Catalonia. But during an afternoon in 1928, it was a real hell of slaughter and tragedy.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever sit here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school), and Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 19th took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 19th, 1928.
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The Germans murdered 50 people here on 15th September 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising....
Tchorek plaques: stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/160904663281/tchorek-plaque
A triangle containing the letter "P" was the symbol worn by Polish inmates of German concentration camps and prisons during the Second World War....
The nazi concentration camp near Munich
Just as it is
and
just as it was
Abraham Lincoln says to sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men
This camp is so close to the city
smoke can be seen rising
from the crematoria chimneys
The British know
The locals know
And yet the world waits
For the next
Holocaust
and so
it comes
[Shot as a callow teenager on a trip round Europe with my inherited Miranda on 35mm colour film in low light, printed and scanned (some time later) ]
None of that really matters
They are only doors but they scream at me
A dŵr glân eisoes yn rhyfeddol o brin, dŵr môr a fydd yn dinistrio cyflenwad dŵr Gaza yw tacteg ddiweddaraf y Seionyddion/ With clean water already extremely hard to obtain, seawater which will destroy Gaza's water supply is the latest Zionist tactic - www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/3/israel-floods-tunnels...
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Fotografia feta amb la Hasselblad 500C/M, fabricada el 1979; objectiu Carl Zeiss Planar f2.8/80mm; pel·licula infrarroja Kodak Aerochrome @320 ISO, caducada com a mínim el 2011, amb filtre groc; revelada amb el kit C41 d'Adox. El vermell del infrarroig dona una inquietant visió del tràgic paisatge de La Pobla de Ferran.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 21 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 21 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 21 de maig de 1928.
www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-pobla-de-ferran-cap-1-la-mort-dels-c...
www.guimera.info/noticies/dues-croniques-sobre-el-crim-de...
Sense cap mena de dubte, la emulsió més cotitzada avui en dia, i això que parlem de pel·licula caducada com a mínim des del 2011 o abans, és la Kodak Aerochrome. Molt probablement ja haureu sentit parlar d'ella si feu fotografia analògica. Es tracta d'una emulsió infrarroja en color, teoricament per a revelar com a diapositiva, però que sovint és més conveninent revelar-la com a negatiu amb el procés C41, ja que és menys exigent a una correcta exposició (i ho és molt), especialment ara que està caducada. Tot i que té un ISO de 400 per a diapositiva, millor exposar per a ISO 320 com a negatiu.
www.fotochismes.com/2020/11/30/la-sorprendente-historia-d...
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Picture taken with a Hasselblad 500C/M, Carl Zeiss Planar f2.8/80mm lens, made in 1979; Kodak Aerochrome infrarred film @320 ISO, expired at least from 2011, with yellow filter; developed with the C41 kit by Adox. The infrared emulsion gives a disturbing vision of that damned village, soaked in blood of the innocent.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever sit here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 21, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school), and Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 21st took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 21, 1928.
Here the news in The Times of 1928:
www.guimera.info/noticies/wp-content/uploads/1928/05/1-Th...
Without a doubt, the most desired and valued emulsion today (and we're talking about expired film since at least 2011 or earlier) is the Kodak Aerochrome. You've probably heard of it by now if you do analog photography. It is a color infrared emulsion, theoretically to be developed as a slide, but it is often more convenient to develop it as a negative with the C41 process, since it is less demanding on a correct exposure (and it is a lot) , especially now that it's expired. Although it rated at ISO 400 for slides, better to expose for ISO 320 as a negative.
emulsive.org/reviews/film-reviews/kodak-film-reviews/koda...
The post of this photo is no reactionary celebration of an unthinking "patriot." I celebrate modernity, reason, and a critical outlook that includes being critical of one's own self as well as one's own nation. I celebrate and call for a critical look at all religions. It is the "process" of America I celebrate. America, at its best, is capable of this kind of muscular sensibility.
During the Second World War the Germans turned the building that now houses the Ministry of National Education into the Gestapo headquarters in Warsaw, and used the basement of the left wing of the building for the detention, interrogation and torture of Polish patriots and resistance fighters.
During the Warsaw Uprising German forces executed thousands of local residents within the grounds of the building and subsequently burned their corpses....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Struggle_and_Martyrdom
Tchorek plaques: stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/160904663281/tchorek-plaque
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Fotografia feta amb una Rolleicord 1a "Polizei" (K3-541), fabricada per a la policia alemana el 1939; Carl Zeiss Triotar f3.5/75mm; Ilford FP4+ revelat amb Rodinal 1+25 durant 9 minuts.
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L'església de Passanant, on s'oficiaren els funerals per les 10 víctimes de la matança de Josep Marimon.
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La Pobla de Ferran a la primavera pot semblar un raconet rural idilic. Però durant una tarda de 1928, fou un autentic infern de matança i tragedia.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 19 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 21 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 21 de maig de 1928.
www.3cat.cat/3cat/la-pobla-de-ferran-cap-1-la-mort-dels-c...
www.guimera.info/noticies/dues-croniques-sobre-el-crim-de...
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pobla_de_Ferran
www.poblesdecatalunya.cat/element.php?e=5551
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Picture taken with a Rolleicord 1a "Polizei" (K3-541), made for the German police in 1939; Carl Zeiss Triotar f3.5/75mm; Ilford FP4+ home developed with Rodinal 1+25 for 9 minutes.
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The church of Passanant, where the funerals for the 10 victims of Josep Marimon were held.
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La Pobla de Ferran in the spring may seem like an idyllic rural corner in Western Catalonia. But during an afternoon in 1928, it was a real hell of slaughter and tragedy.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever lay here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school in the village of Passanant, 2 km away), and Josep Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 21st took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 21, 1928.
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IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
La Pobla de Ferran a la primavera pot semblar un raconet rural idilic. Però durant una tarda de 1928, fou un autentic infern de matança i tragedia.
La Pobla de Ferran es un petit i quasi despoblat poblet d’un sol carrer, proper a Passanant, el cap del municipi. Només una casa sembla habitada sempre, però la resta es troben en bon estat ja que son segones residencies, i el poble es veu força arreglat. No té església però si les restes d’una ermita romànica. Es troba al extrem nord de la Conca de Barberà però dins de la Baixa Segarra, pel que té molts més lligams amb Tàrrega i Cervera. El paisatge és clàrament segarrenc, molt sec bona part de l’any peró preciosament verd al abril i maig, per exemple en aquest 2025 joiosament plujós.
També sembla que era excepcionalment verd el maig de 1928, en que havia plogut molt i s’esperava una molt bona collita. Aleshores el conreu del cereal era el nucli vital de la vida de tothom a La Pobla de Ferran. Tothom eren menys de 50 persones. D’aquestes, 9 eren nens i nenes. Un dels adults era Josep Marimon Carles, de 26 anys. Feia uns 5 anys que, durant el servei militar, va contraure tuberculosi vertebral o Mal de Pott, una malaltia que provocava malformacions, molt dolor, i impedia treballar. Per això es pasava moltes hores estirat a l’entrada de casa prenent el sol, que li mitigava el dolor. Però potser alguns veins ho confonien amb peresa, i així li feien saber. Probablement tot això va fer anant alienant soterradament a Marimon, que va dir més d’una vegada que “quan jo m’aixequí d’aqui, no s’hi posarà mai més ningú”.
La tarda del dissabte 21 de maig de 1928 quasi tot el poble era treballant als camps, netejant-los de males herbes. Només quedaven unes poques dones grans, els nens petits (els grans eren encara a escola), i el Marimon. Aleshores començà. Cap a les 4, va convencer a dues nenes i un nen de 3 i 4 anys (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca i Miquel Torres) que l’acompanyessin a una pallissa de la casa més al nord del poble, per veure com caçava colomins. Un cop allà sols, Marimon mata amb una destral a les tres víctimes i les tapà amb palla. Hi ha testimonis que en aquest punt arribà un esquilador al poble i el Marimon dissimulà durant uns 40 minuts, però no està clar. En tot cas, un cop va tenir camp lliure, armat amb una destral i una escopeta, va anar resseguint el carrer únic tot matant. A Can Corona va trobar Rosa Aloi de 45 anys, cosint. Amb ella hi havia una nena de 4 anys, Ramona Rabadà. Atacà la dona amb la destral, ferint-la greument al cap i, veient que la nena fugia cap al cobert del davant del carrer, la perseguí i matà allà. Rosa Aloi va morir pocs dies després. Marimon segui carrer amunt i matà d’un tret a Francesca Canela, de 70 anys, que donava menjar a les gallines de casa seva. No estic segur de quina casa era.
En aquest punt, Antonia Marimon (no eren familia) i Marina Roca, tornaren al poble i començaren a preocupar-se en no veure les criatures, i les començaren a buscar. Mentrestant, l’assassí havia vist que els nens més grans tornaven d’escola a Passanant (a uns 2 km), i les va enganyar amb la mateixa excusa dels colomins, portant-los a un paller que hi ha sota el castell i una mica apartat de les cases. Allà en matà tres més (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà i Salvador Torres, de 5, 6 i 11 anys). En aquell moment, en Josep Torres, de 8 anys, ho va veure i començà a fugir, però en Marimon li disparà per la esquena i el va matar.
En Marimon tornà a casa seva, on ja havia preparat la fugida. Agafà roba, menjar, beguda i recarregà la escopeta. En aquells moments Antonia Marimon i Marina Roca ja havien descobert els cadavers dels infants i pujaven pel carrer en estat de panic buscant ajuda. L’assassí els hi disparà diversos trets des de la finestra de casa seva, deixant-les greument ferides al mig del carrer, i després fugí en direcció sud. Encara va tenir temps de veure una avia amb la darrera criatura viva de tot el poble, que fugien, i els hi va disparar. Però estaven més lluny i afortunadament va fallar el tret.
Tots els habitants que treballaven dispersos pels camps havien sentit alguns trets, però era usual que Marimon cacés colomins, pel que inicialment no en deurien fer cas. Però en començar a sentir els crits desesperats de les dones, així com més trets, tornaren alarmats cap al poble, però no era rapid, sobretot perque La Pobla de Ferran està al cim d’una serra. Arribaren a una escena de horror absolut, amb tots els menors del poble morts excepte un, una dona gran morta i tres més de greument ferides. I amb l’assassí desaparegut.
Aviat les campanes de Passanant i de tots els pobles del entorn tocaren a sometent, i s’organitzà una batuda per caçar el criminal, al que tothom qualificava de boig. El primer dia ja eren 300 homes, i ràpidament foren quasi 2000, incloent decenes de guardies civils espanyols. En els propers dies es feu l’enterrament de les 9 victimes directes d’aquell 21 de maig, i pocs dies després, el de Rosa Aloi, que mori de les greus ferides al cap. Dos matrimonis perderen tres fills cadascun d’ells. I l’assassí encara estava sense localitzar. Diversos rumors el situaren a Montblanc, Tàrrega o Cervera, i part de la cerca es desvià cap allà. Molts pensaven que havia fugit cap a Barcelona o fins i tot França. Però altres pensaven que un noi sol, coix no havia pogut anar pas tant lluny, i intensificaren la busqueda per l’entorn més inmediat. I així fou com vuit dies després, de bon matí, el somatent el va trobar prop d’una cabana situada a menys de dos quilometres de La Pobla de Ferran, en direcció sud. El jutge i la guardia civil el volien agafar viu, però el somatent, lligat al territori i els seus habitants, volia venjança. Per tant, tal i com el van veure, li varen fotre un tret al cap. Així acabà aquesta tragedia. O casi, perquè pel que sembla, tot i que he vist versions contradictories, tant la Antonia Marimon com la Marina Roca, les altres dues ferides, acabaren morint per culpa dels trets que els hi disparà en Josep Marimon, pel que possiblement el balanç final fou de 12 assassinats.
Avui en dia La Pobla de Ferran és un llogaret que, tot i que poc habitat entre setmana, en gran part continua intacte en segona residencia. Aixó sí, encara hi manca un memorial per a les victimes de Josep Marimon aquell 21 de maig de 1928.
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La Pobla de Ferran in the spring may seem like an idyllic rural corner in Western Catalonia. But during an afternoon in 1928, it was a real hell of slaughter and tragedy.
La Pobla de Ferran is a small and almost deserted village with only one street, near Passanant, the head of the municipality. Only one house seems to be always inhabited these days, but the rest are in good condition since they are second residences, and the village looks quite tidy. It has no church but the remains of a Romanesque chapel. The landscape is very dry for much of the year but beautifully green in April and May, for example in this joyfully rainy 2025.
It also seems that it was exceptionally green in May 1928, when it had rained a lot and a very good harvest was expected. At that time, cereal cultivation was the vital nucleus of everyone's life in La Pobla de Ferran. There were less than 50 people in all. Of these, 9 were boys and girls. One of the adults was Josep Marimon Carles, aged 26. About 5 years ago, during his military service, he contracted spinal tuberculosis or Pott’s Disease, that caused malformations, a lot of pain, and prevented him from working. That is why he spent many hours lying in the entrance to his house taking sunbaths, which alleviated his pain. But perhaps some neighbors confused this with laziness, and that is how they let him know. Probably all this rejecting and pain slowly alienated Marimon, who said more than once that "when I get up from here, no one will ever sit here again".
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 21, 1928, almost the entire village was working in the fields, clearing them of weeds. Only a few old women remained, the small children (the older ones were still at school), and Marimon. Then it began. At around 4 o'clock, he convinced two girls and a boy aged 3 and 4 (Carme Rabadà, Teresa Roca and Miquel Torres) to accompany him to a hay room at the house further north of the village, to see how he hunted pigeons, something he usually did. Once there alone, Marimon killed the three little innocent victims with an axe and covered them with straw. There are witnesses that at this point a shearer arrived in the village and Marimon coldly helped him for about 40 minutes, but it is not clear. In any case, once he had a free field, armed with an axe and a shotgun, he went around the only street killing everyone he found. In Can Corona house he found Rosa Aloi, aged 45, sewing. With her was a 4-year-old girl, Ramona Rabadà. He attacked the woman with the axe, seriously wounding her in the head, and, seeing the girl flee towards the shed across the street, he chased and killed her there. Rosa Aloi died a few days later. Marimon continued up the street and shot and killed Francesca Canela, 70, who was feeding the chickens in her house. I am not sure which house it was, maybe the one further south with a large barn door.
At this point, Antonia Marimon (they were not family) and Marina Roca, returned to the village and began to worry when they did not see the children, and began to look for them. Meanwhile, the murderer had seen the older children returning from school in Passanant (about 2 km away), and deceived them with the same excuse of the pigeons, taking them to a haystack under the castle and a little away from the houses. There he killed three more (Ramon Canela, Josep Rabadà and Salvador Torres, aged 5, 6 and 11). At that moment, Josep Torres, aged 8, saw him and started to run away, but Marimon shot him in the back and killed him.
Marimon returned to his house, where he had already prepared his escape. He took clothes, food, drink and reloaded his shotgun. At that moment, Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca had already discovered the bodies of the children and were running up the street in a state of panic looking for help. The murderer fired several shots at them from the window of his house, leaving them seriously injured in the middle of the street, and then fled south. He still had time to see an grandmother with the last living child in the whole village, who were fleeing, and he shot them. But they were further away and fortunately the shot missed. All the inhabitants who were working scattered in the fields had heard some shots, but it was usual for Marimon to hunt pigeons, so initially they should not have paid attention. But when they began to hear the desperate cries of the women, as well as more shots, they returned in alarm to the village, but it was not fast, especially because La Pobla de Ferran is on the top of a hill. They arrived at a scene of absolute horror, with all the children in the village dead except one, an elderly woman dead and three more seriously injured. And with the murderer missing.
Soon the bells of Passanant and all the surrounding towns rang out calling for the “somatent” (militia), and a raid was organized to hunt down the criminal, whom everyone described as crazy. On the first day there were already 300 men, and quickly they were almost 2000, including dozens of Spanish police. In the following days the burial of the 9 direct victims of that May 21st took place, and a few days later, that of Rosa Aloi, who died of serious head injuries. Two couples lost three children each. And the murderer was still unaccounted for. Various rumors placed him in Montblanc, Tàrrega or Cervera, and part of the search was diverted there. Many thought he had fled to Barcelona or even France. But others thought that a lonely, lame boy could not have gone that far, and they intensified the search in the immediate area. And so it was that eight days later, early in the morning, a group of “somatent” found him near a cabin located less than two kilometers from La Pobla de Ferran, heading south.
The judge and the police wanted to take him alive, but the “somatent”, tied to the territory and its inhabitants, wanted revenge. Therefore, as they saw him, they shot him in the head. That's how this tragedy ended. Or almost, because apparently, although I have seen contradictory versions, both Antonia Marimon and Marina Roca, the other two wounded, ended up dying because of the shots that Josep Marimon fired at them, so possibly the final tally was 12 murdered.
Today La Pobla de Ferran is a village that, although sparsely inhabited during the week, remains largely intact as a second residence. However, there is still a lack of a memorial for the victims of Josep Marimon on that May 21, 1928.
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Here the news in The Times of 1928:
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* "confessions" were part of my "Lucifer's ashes" project; taped stories of those that were "there"* and willing to talk to an expressionist artist of their "actions"* during war time. The stories were narrated between 1964 and 1965. This is the first time the stories are being told, but my illustration to these stories have been exhibited at various colleges and Universities in the U.S.
This plaque is located near Warszawa Gdańska station and commemorates 20 Polish victims of a street execution carried out by the German occupiers of Warsaw during the Second World War.
They were murdered here on 20th October 1943....
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This plaque commemorates 30 Polish inmates of the Pawiak prison who were executed by the Germans at this location in occupied Warsaw on 12th November 1943....
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