An anti-Franco activist and member of both Esquerra Republicana (ERC – Republican Left of Catalonia) and Estat Català (Catalan State), she was condemned to death by a summary war council and became the first woman to be shot at Camp de la Bota on the morning of 18 April 1939. Born in Tarragonès county, she settled in Badalona, where she worked as a shop assistant in a haberdashery run by Angelina Picas. A neighbour who had an interest in running the shop and who got along well with Mrs. Picas's nephews and nieces reported her. She was arrested along with the shopkeeper by the Falangists. The accusation, military rebellion and rebellion against the legitimate powers of the State, was linked to the false argument of having betrayed and caused the death of right-wing people throughout the Republic. The war council was held at the Palau de Justícia in Barcelona, where she was sentenced to death. Today, Carme Claramunt i Barot's name can be read on the memorial mural at Camp de la Bota, along with those of the 1,706 people executed by the Franco regime between 1939 and 1952.
An anti-Franco activist, she was condemned to death by a war council and became the first woman to be shot to death at Camp de la Bota on the morning of 18 April 1939.