 In 1897, an incident popularly known as "Els processos de Montjuïc" prompted the execution of anarchist supporters, which then led to a severe repression of the struggle for workers' rights.On different occasions during the Spanish Civil War, both Nationalists and Republicans were executed there, each at the time when the site was held by their opponents.The Catalan nationalist leader Lluís Companys was also executed there in 1940, having been extradited to the Franco government by the Nazis.