Alberto Jiménez-Becerril

To perpetuate the memory of the victims, the City Council of Seville promoted the creation of the Anti-Terrorism and Violence Alberto Jiménez-Becerril Foundation which was constituted on December 1999. On March 11, 2014, European Day of the victims of Terrorism, the foundation placed a plaque against terrorism in the bedding of the Plaza of the Incarnation with the phrase of Gandhi, it says: "There is no way for peace, peace is the way." In that same place, an olive tree was planted. On December 28, 2015, they placed another plaque in one of the flowerpots of a square at the crossroads of the street José Laguillo with Arroyo street. The plate has some verses about peace and freedom by the poet Enrique Barrero.

The separatist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna( ETA) assassinated Alberto Jiménez-Becerril Barrio and Ascensión García Ortiz in Seville on January 30, 1998. He was murdered at the age of 37. Ascension, Alberto's wife, worked at a law firm as a prosecutor in court. In the time that the murderer was committed, she was 39 years old and had three children; four years old, seven years old and eight years old as result of his marriage to Alberto.

On January 30, 1998 Jiménez-Becerril and his wife, Ascension Garcia Ortiz, a procurator of the Courts of Seville, were killed by an ETA’s member on the street in the Old Town of Seville when they returned to their domicile around one in the morning. He was 37 years old and had three children between the ages of eight to four at the time of this death.

He was appointed General Secretary of People's Party of Seville in 1983 and Seville’s Councillor since 1987. Alberto was also a deputy of the Parliament of Andalusia, between 1989 and 1990, and he had belonged to Sevilla Club of Fútbol’s Executive.

Alberto Jiménez-Becerril Barrio (August 21, 1960 in Seville – January 30, 1998 in Ibid) was a Spanish politician of the People's Party (PP) assassinated by the terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in 1998.