Only one of the men accused over Guillem Agulló’s killing was convicted: Pedro Cuevas received a 14-year sentence for homicide and served four years. Agulló, an 18-year-old antifascist activist, was stabbed in Montanejos, Castellón, on 11 April 1993.
His parents and sister have now sent a letter to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska asking the state to recognise him as a victim of terrorism. They delivered it at the Ateneo de Madrid, more than 33 years after the killing. Levante-EMV reported that the letter had 263 signatures from cultural figures, politicians and jurists. The family says recognition would address a debt left unresolved for 33 years.
The family’s request concerns the official classification of a killing after its trial; it is a separate legal question from the Barcelona remand case. The family says the Castellón court treated Agulló’s murder as a “youth fight”, overlooking the ideological motive they believe drove the attack. RTVE reported that the 1995 judgment did not accept a political or ideological motive, while the family argues that the original proceedings failed to recognise the far-right character of the killing.
Five members of the neo-Nazi group Marxalenes Cuarta Red went looking for Agulló while he was on Easter holiday with friends, according to the account of the case. They cornered him in an alley, where Cuevas stabbed him in the heart. The trial took place in October 1995: four defendants were acquitted, while Cuevas was the sole person convicted of homicide. The family is seeking administrative recognition of Agulló as a terrorism victim, not a retrial of those criminal proceedings.
In 2005 Cuevas was arrested during Operación Panzer, which dismantled an alleged neo-Nazi network. Two years later, he stood as a candidate for Alianza Nacional in Chiva, Valencia. The family has also recalled receiving threatening calls and messages during what it describes as years of harassment and institutional abandonment.
In April 2026, the family asked the Interior Ministry to recognise Agulló as a terrorism victim, arguing that the killing arose from far-right ideological violence. The ministry sought assessments from the Guardia Civil and the Audiencia de Castellón. The Guardia Civil’s Technical Cabinet concluded that the events lacked the nature of a terrorist attack; the family is challenging that assessment and asking for independent expert reports. A second assessment was being sought from the Castellón court.
The dispute still turns on the case’s legal record. Sociologist Rafael Xambó, who has researched the crime, criticised what he described as the justice system’s failure to confront its political context. Agulló’s father has recalled his son’s commitment to justice and equality, including his concern about discrimination against migrants. The family says the conviction established homicide, while its current request asks the state to recognise the attack’s ideological nature and legal character.
The family’s letter has drawn 263 endorsements, including support from Gabriel Rufián and Águeda Micó. The family also points to institutional recognition that did not endure: the Corts Valencianes condemned the killing in 1993, and in 2016 the regional parliament backed awards in Agulló’s name for work against racism and xenophobia. Those awards were abolished in 2024 by Vox with the support of the PP majority in the chamber.
Agulló’s case is included in the Colectivo de Víctimas del Terrorismo (COVITE) map of terrorism victims in Spain. The family has asked the government to recognise him as a terrorism victim and to assume responsibility for the judicial and institutional response to the case. The ministry’s review remains pending.
