page_title: Morral affair
hierarchical_section_title: Morral affair
caption_attribution_description: Español: Documento gráfico, segundos después del atentado anarquista (1906) al rey Alfonso XIII en el día de su boda; 28 personas murieron y más de 100 fueron heridas, pero los reyes salieron ilesos. English: Graphic document, seconds after the anarchist bombing (1906) of King Alfonso XIII on his wedding day, 28 people died and over 100 were injured, but the royals were unharmed. Français&#160;: Document graphique, quelques secondes après l'attentat anarchiste (1906), au roi d'Espagne Alphonse XIII, le jour de son mariage, 28 personnes sont mortes et plus de 100 ont été blessés, mais le roi et la reine sortirons indemnes. العربية: وثيقة جرافيك تظهر بعد ثوان من محاولة تفجير موكب الملك ألفونسو الثالث عشر في يوم زفافه (1906)، قتل 28 شخصا وأصيب حوالي 100 شخص، ولم تصب العائلة المالكة بأذى.
context_page_description: The Morral affair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906. The attacker, Mateu Morral, acting on a desire to spur revolution, threw a bomb concealed in a flower bouquet from his hotel window as the King's procession passed, killing 24 bystanders and soldiers, wounding over 100 others, and leaving the royals unscathed. Morral sought refuge from republican journalist José Nakens but fled in the night to Torrejón de Ardoz, whose villagers reported the interloper. Two days after the attack, militiamen accosted Morral, who killed one before killing himself. Morral was likely involved in a similar attack on the king a year prior.
  The affair became a pretext to stop Francisco Ferrer, an anarchist pedagogue who ran Escuela Moderna, the influential, rationalist, antigovernment, anticlerical, antimilitary, Barcelonean school in whose library Morral worked. An unrequited love interest from the school might also have influenced Morral. Ferrer was charged with masterminding the attack, and though he was acquitted for lack of evidence, he remained a target of the government and church.
context_section_description: The Morral affair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906. The attacker, Mateu Morral, acting on a desire to spur revolution, threw a bomb concealed in a flower bouquet from his hotel window as the King's procession passed, killing 24 bystanders and soldiers, wounding over 100 others, and leaving the royals unscathed. Morral sought refuge from republican journalist José Nakens but fled in the night to Torrejón de Ardoz, whose villagers reported the interloper. Two days after the attack, militiamen accosted Morral, who killed one before killing himself. Morral was likely involved in a similar attack on the king a year prior.
  The affair became a pretext to stop Francisco Ferrer, an anarchist pedagogue who ran Escuela Moderna, the influential, rationalist, antigovernment, anticlerical, antimilitary, Barcelonean school in whose library Morral worked. An unrequited love interest from the school might also have influenced Morral. Ferrer was charged with masterminding the attack, and though he was acquitted for lack of evidence, he remained a target of the government and church. The journalist Nakens and two friends, however, received prison sentences, held partially responsible for the murder Morral committed after fleeing the city. Following a prominent campaign for royal pardon, the three were released within a year of sentencing. Nakens' role in the affair spotlighted fissures in the Spanish republican movement between gradualism and near-term revolution that would later become an identity crisis.
caption: The bombing on May 31, 1906
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