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...Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support of the country's powerful and legal Communist Party, was put upon to express its concern about Carrillo's arrest. As Carrillo admitted after he was taken to Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, "The longer I stay here, the more propaganda I am making for the Communist Party...
...Madrid's Court of Public Order decreed that Carrillo and his comrades should be charged with a relatively light offense-violating a law against membership in a party "submitting to an international discipline that proposes to establish a totalitarian system" in Spain. If tried and convicted, the Carabanchel Eight could get as much as six years in prison...
Within minutes of Camacho's arrest the police began seizing anyone considered suspicious within a half-mile radius of Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, where the illegal Communist Party had called a demonstration to demand amnesty for the rest of Spain's estimated 2000 political prisoners. The demonstration never started...
...protest the limits on the pardons, 3,000 demonstrators - perhaps the largest crowd the outlawed Spanish Communist Party has dared muster since the end of the Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries...
...windows of Carabanchel prison on Madrid's southwest outskirts meanwhile blazed with light. Families of the three condemned men were being allowed a last visit. The mother of one screamed hysterically as she departed. "They are going to shoot him! The police have hurt me!" She was quickly bundled into a car and driven away weeping...