It is a town full of history with few neighbors. In 2014, residents Castrillo Mota of the Jewsin the province of Burgos, referendum to end an antisemitic misunderstanding. surname removed Jewish Killer and the original saved the Mota de Judíos. Since then, they have been subjected to dozens of threats and insults. and seven neo-Nazi attacks The Spaniards arrived from Madrid, almost all by car and at dawn.
The last three Spanish antisemitists arrested by the Civil Guard respond to an interesting profile: two men and one womanover 30, wealthy class, with good deeds during the day and even marijuana cultivation It was learned in the home of one of them, as the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, CASE OPEN. One of those arrested, a resident of the Madrid town of Las Rozas, is a follower of a group on Facebook. “Christians against Israel” (Christians against Israel).
“The Mayor Was Sold To The Jews”
At the gate of the Castrillo Mota de Judios town hall, in front of the former headquarters of the Inquisition, the Nazis wrote: “Mayor Sold to Murderer Jew”. At the entrance to the town, they changed the name to the anti-Semitic surname “Castrillo Matajudíos”.
Mayor Lawrence RodriguezYour citizens. Explain the origin of the surname racist from town. “In 1035, Fernando Castilla I forced the Jews to leave the country. We are castration. So they settled here on La Mota hill, and the town was called Castrillo Mota de Judíos, but in the 16th century it was renamed Castrillo Matajudíos”.
He explains that the name change is about a local musician and victory. Antonio de CabezonChamber musician for Carlos V and Felipe VII. In his will of 1566, he wrote that he was born in De Cabezón Matajudíos, a time of persecution against the Jews, perhaps wanting to give him credit or avoid misunderstandings.
Franco and Fraga
The misunderstanding continued into the 20th century. Manual Fraga As a Francoist minister in 1964. fourth century the death of the musician and Francisco Franco headed the organization your action. Considering the incident, the Minister of Information and Tourism decided to change the name of the town as follows. Castrillo de Cabezonhowever, the change was not committed correctly, and a year later the town regained its anti-Semitic surname, They’re back to being matajudíos.
Everything was fixed at the polls in 2014, the original name was restored by popular vote, but then from Madrid came the Spanish neo-Nazis, the castizos. they are the first MSR (Republican Social Movement) militants on the pretext Palestinian cause. On May 1, 2016, two people are accused of spray painting. access signs From the Jews to Castrillo Mota. They changed the name of the town to “Castrillo Matajudíos” by playing with the letters and added a graffiti to them. english cross, routinely used by far-right groups.
Phalange and National Democracy
The Civil Guard arrested them soon after, when they destroyed one of its walls, next to the remains of a former service station on the A-1, with the words: “We are defending Europe”. they carried with them 8 cans of paint, two packs of stickers from MSR and Christmas greetings from the same gestureAccording to the documentation for the case where you accessed CASE OPEN.
The two men are about to stand trial pending trial at Burgos Court. the prosecutor asks 30 months in prison for both of them. One of the defendants participated in the 2003 elections for the Castilla y Leon Cortes for Salamanca. phalanx and then to those in 2007 on the charts Tardajos (Burgos) with the far-right party National Democracy.
more violence
In 2020 and 2021, new graffiti appeared in Castrillo until the most serious incident occurred: “A neighbor was going to his cellarIt would be half past ten at night”, remember the mayor and his deputy, Agustín. I saw a metal pot burn. “We were lucky because the flame wouldn’t catch fire, if it was made of plastic it would catch on and it would be catastrophic. These people had never come so quickly, they always came at night,” they recall. . Civil Guard sources explain it this way: “They took a step because they had already burned the street furniture, they were raising the level of violence“.
The last attacks were in the summer of 2021 and the winter of 2022. graffiti in town, tries to burn the local flag, Where the star of David appears. Its authors were arrested by the Civil Guard at the beginning of October. And their profiles are great. Two men and a woman are residents of wealthy towns on the outskirts of Madrid (Las Rozas and Algete). Over 30, with good work. even if one is small indoor marijuana cultivation inside the chalet.
“We appreciate the obvious contradiction in these people,” explains an officer from the Civil Guard Information Center. “People with stable jobs and lives. Their crimes have always occurred outside of working hours, on a Sunday, public holiday or holiday. It’s considered a crime. part of a pure specieshigher. Hitler is the greatest leaderThey advocate racial purity, but one of their homes has a marijuana plantation,” she adds.
The other five attacks
These three Nazis went to Castrillo Mota de Judíos to openly commit these acts of vandalism. They didn’t even name themselves as a group. they are accused five more attacks Anti-Semitic in Madrid: two Hoyo de Manzanares Jewish Cemeterythey wrote slogans denying the Holocaust on their walls. “Holotale”. Also hate messages: “good juden, dead juden”, “whore israel”.
The rest of the attacks took place in the United States. Villanueva de la Canada Synagogueinside Alcobendas Jewish Cultural Center And in Almudena Cemetery. Someone drew anti-Semitic graffiti. They insulted the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
this calligraphic analysis graffiti, which allowed to determine that the author is always the same, his writing has characteristic features in graphics. They found the sprays at the home of one of the detainees in Las Rozas. Three Nazis shockers (someone pretended to be a cell phone) and one compressed air gunas well as sufficient graphic and literary material of the cause.
against Florentino Perez
They hid from a copy Mein Kampf even books about Mussolinibut above all many Nazi stickers and gadgets and football scarves. Insulting the Jews with his face Anna Frank and various badges Messages against Florentino PérezThe head of Real Madrid who expelled Ultra Sur from the Bernabeu stadium.
The Civil Guard is now surrounded by three Spanish Nazis. overseas connections. They neither gave their group a name nor dealt with Spanish extremists like Bastión Frontal. Unable to find minimally sophisticated manifestos or pamphlets on Nazi computers, the investigation disclosed its sources, had no notes on future targets of attack, and had no “major intellectual concerns”.
According to the Civil Guard, the Madrid Nazis had no major “intellectual concerns”. They misspelled the name of the Auschwitz concentration camp on a graffiti.
In fact, in one of the graffiti made in Castrillo Mota de Judíos, the Nazi was wrong and misspelled name From Auschwitz concentration camp. Painted with black spray “auswitch” and returned to his home and work in Madrid.
After the ‘Perinola – Lienzo’ operation by the Civil Guard, the neighbors live in peace again. In the streets and surroundings you can see the ruins of the Jewish town, the church of San Esteban and a few columns of the old synagogue. On November 8, a monument to the city’s Jewish history will be unveiled.
The mayor does not plan to “stand still” and has projects to promote the history of the city, which is very close to the Camino de Santiago. Currently, there are two more children on the streets of Castrillo Mota de Judíos, twice the number that existed before the original name was found. They came with their families after the graffiti. They are Jewish and feel at home.