Francisco Ascaso

Francisco Ascaso Abadía
Born	(1901-04-01)April 1, 1901 Almudévar, Province of Huesca, Spain
Died	July 20, 1936(1936-07-20) (aged 35) Barcelona, Spain
Organization(s)	Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, Nosotros
Movement	Anarchism
Family	Alejandro Ascaso Abadía (brother) Domingo Ascaso Abadía (brother) Joaquín Ascaso Budria (cousin)

Francisco Ascaso Abadía (April 1, 1901 – July 20, 1936) was the cousin of Joaquín Ascaso, the President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon,^[1] a carpenter^[2] and a prominent Anarcho-syndicalist figure in Spain.

Ascaso lived a life of crime and violence being involved in the deaths of multiple high-profile government officials and as a result frequently detained. By the time of the Spanish Civil War, he had created and been involved in numerous anarchist operations and organizations alongside his close friend Buenaventura Durruti. He would be killed during the Civil War.