The press of the time reported the holding of a demonstration in front of the Madrid prison in protest against the arrest of some "coreligionists." A ruling by the Court of Public Order had declared proven that a massive concentration called by the so-called "Workers' Commissions" in front of the entrances to a prison in Madrid in solidarity with their membership "a large number of people gathered in its vicinity. ". "This happened around eleven in the morning on January and as the Public Order forces that were providing service required them to abandon their attitude they divided into two groups of more than fifty members thus beginning a street parade along the public roads of the neighborhood where the prison is located.
Traffic was interrupted and subversive shouts were uttered by unidentified people which led to a new intervention by the Police to dissolve the groups. The arrest of José Benito Batres was achieved and Francisco Garrido Bernardino who were CXB Directory part of those who were rioting on Camarena Street and José Sandalio Casado Algora and Justo Cespedes Herrera of the group that was heading towards the suburban station on Illescas Street." "The Chamber sentenced José Benito Francisco José Sandalio and Justo as perpetrators of a crime of non-peaceful demonstration to two sentences of four months' imprisonment. Those thus sanctioned appealed to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court but the High Court rejects their resources and confirms the conviction in all its aspects".
José Benito Batres today years later remembers in detail that day and the events that occurred "Fifty years ago today I met Pepito Casado. It was his first arrest and my sixth. I have to say that at first I didn't like him. He entered an armed police minibus in which they had taken me and was sitting and handcuffed. He was with another detainee like hee hee ha ha until a gray man threw a shit at him from behind which I would have given him. I wasn't up for joking. They had stopped me a kilometer from the demonstration because a car The secret had recognized me when I was walking alone. Then she told me that the joke was because of nerves. We became very friends until today and we continue to be like brothers or more. Although no one acknowledged having seen me at the demonstration and I brought a witness who lived there.
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