Dating Hell

José Luis Espinosa Pardo, an active militant of the armed revolutionary organizations during Francoism and the Transition, but who ended up being a confidant of the state's secret services. A novelist and a filmmaker investigate the figure of José Luis Espinosa Pardo, an active militant of the armed revolutionary organizations during Francoism and the Transition, but who ended up being a confidant of the state's secret services. His activity would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the failure of the assassination attempt on Antonio Cubillo, a Canario dissident and leader of the armed organization MPAIAC, of which he was the organizer. In 1988, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, in which the Supreme Court found it proved that some unidentified people "but who belonged to the police" decided to "dismember" the separatist organization MPAIAC and make its leader, Antonio Cubillo refugee in Algiers disappear. According to the trial, these "undetermined" people ordered the assassination of Cubillo from José Luis Espinosa Pardo, who "had been and done almost everything: as a carpenter, spy, member of the Communist Party of Marxist-Leninist Spain, qualified militant of the Front Antifascist Revolutionary and Patriotic and General Secretary of the UGT of Murcia". It was the first sentence of terrorism of state in Spain. He died on November 20, 2016.