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Guillem
Guillem Agulló was assassinated in Montanejos in the early hours of April 11, 1993. Anti-fascist. Antiracist. Independentist. He was eighteen years old. The case convulsed and marked an entire generation of young people. Guillem Agulló has become a symbol of freedom. This "narrative non fiction" plunges us into the violent Valencia of the 1990's. Núria Cadenas, with a distilled and contained style, has immersed herself in the details of the case, in the newspapers of the time, in the memories of family and friends of Guillem and even in his own past to measure the distance between the word injustice and the word dignity. The assassination of Guillem Agulló is a chilling example of the impunity with which fascism acts, under the protection of police forces and the judiciary, and with the shameful complicity of a press prepared to manipulate the truth to the extreme.