Columna Durruti
In September 1936 Saïl, a member of the French section of the AIT (CGT-SR), went to fight against fascism in Spain. Aged 42, he was one of the first foreign volunteers to join the Durruti Column. He would even be appointed later on as head of the Internationalist Group of the Anarchist Militia, which was politically significant given the Republicans were carrying out a vicious propaganda campaign against the "invasion of the Moors".