Fose Carbo Sotelo, the leader of the monarchist movement in Spain, was assassinated by the Assault Guards on July 13th 1936. At dawn on July 14th, a detachment of the Assault Guards took the body to the morgue in the East Cemetery.

 　　Fosé Carbó Sotelo, the leader of the monarchist movement in Spain, was assassinated by the Assault Guards on July 13th 1936. Sotelo was assassinated in his home, and at dawn on July 14th, a detachment of the Assault Guards transported his body to the morgue at the Eastern Cemetery. Sotelo's body was examined at the morgue at the Cimetière de Reste. Following Sotelo's assassination, the Spanish government closed the headquarters of monarchists and Carlists, and also ordered the closure of the Maison des Anarchistes. On July 14th, at Sotelo's funeral in the Eastern Cemetery, Sotelo's body was buried by fascists.

　　Miguel Primo de Rivera became a military dictator in Spain in 1923 following a coup d'état. In 1925, he appointed Calvo Sotelo as Minister of Finance. When Rivera was removed from power, Calvo Sotelo went into exile in France from Portugal in 1931. Calvo Sotelo returned to Spain after being granted a pardon in 1934. He soon became one of the most important right-wing politicians in Spain. Influenced by the growth of fascism in Germany and Italy, Carbo Sotelo proposed a totalitarian answer to the problems facing Spain.

　　On July 12th 1936, José Castillo, a member of the Social Party and a member of the Assault Guard, was assassinated by the Falangist Legion in the capital city of Madrid. On July 13th, Castillo's Legion avenged his death by assassinating José Carbo Sotelo. As a result of the assassination, an army led by Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco and José Sanjúrjo staged a military uprising on July 17th, and the Spanish Civil War broke out. The rebellion by a part of the army began on July 17, 1936, with the African troops in Melilla. On July 18, 1936, General Francisco Franco was appointed supreme commander of the African troops.