The Spanish Civil War - pg. 138

During this fighting Durruti w as mortally wounded.
A rumour was soon started, that he had had been shot
by one of his owen men who objected to his severe discipline.
In fact the anarchists, for reasons of morale and propaganda,
claimed that he had been killed by a sniper's bullet when it had
really been an accident. The cocking handle of a companion's
'naranjero' machine pistol caught on a car door, firing a
bullet into his chest. Durruti was without doubt the most popular
anarchist leader. He had been an unrelenting rebel throughout his
life and had earned the reputation of a revolutionary Robin Hood.
His funeral in Barcelona was the greatest scene of mass mourning
ever witnessed in Spain, with half a million people in the procession
alone. His reputation was so great, not just among anarchists, that
attempts were made after his death to claim his allegiance. The
Falange said that, like his two brothers, he was a Falangist
sympathizer at heart, while the communists felt certain that he was
on the way to joining them.