Claim: In 1940 the former 1st president of Parliament of Catalonia Lluis Companys, who was followed by Joan Casanovs in office, was executed.
Evidence: Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: [ʎuˈis kumˈpaɲs; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Spanish politician from Catalonia who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Exiled in France after the war, he was captured and handed over by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, to the Spanish State of Francisco Franco, who had him executed by firing squad in 1940. Josep Irla