A device composed of 70 policemen, a helicopter and tracking dogs surround the area of \u200b\u200bthe Sierra Margarita, between the towns of Cadiz Forest and Benamahoma to arrest the man who five years ago has been released into the bush to escape justice.
half past six one-day cold and wet. Antonio Manuel sleeps in the tent that is installed near the path that connects the two highland populations, right in the Grazalema Natural Park, with a very steep and vegetated terrain. The officers have spent months studying how and when can be done with such a peculiar piece. They think that by now there have it all done.
But the offender, old dog, was aware of his presence and tries to escape. Is when it starts a chase up the mountain, among rocks that emerge. The new Lute, in a daring courage, launches into a stream from about three feet high, sweeping away two policemen, but is finally captured.
La Guardia Civil last saw him in his hut (tent) where lay a girl of only 14. His niece maybe. They had spent the night confined to bed and as stipulated by a complaint "was naked from the waist down." Monte fierce.
The legend of Antonio Manuel Sánchez was born five years ago. After spending nearly five years in prison Asturias, just outside, in 2004, committed a robbery. It seems that he has not learned the lesson. With the loot train across Spain to restart his life among the mountains which saw him grow.
A Benamahoma, where he was born August 21, 1970, is back with 33. He was happy in the house of the grandmother who raised him, which wants to keep up his last days. Think that their problems with the law over. Spend a few years or so quiet, doing work as a builder and man of gardening at City Hall. Some neighbors, knowing his past, "argued with, look for", but it contains. He does not want any more trouble despite his blood boil.
Until one day the Civil Guard returns to knock on his door. According to some locals, among several agents will stick a "brutal beating" his resistance to being arrested . Cursing sore and returns to the Asturian prison, where only 15 days passed since the judge sets him free.
But nowhere near the story was over. In late 2006 you get a new notification. Justice requires their presence.
" before stepping back to jail, shot the mountain me," he swears to himself. Although it will suffer his grandmother, the woman who has never failed. And so it begins Manuel Antonio romance in the old mountain bandits and poachers. The
Margarita saw , is installed in a large tent of blue. Beside him stands another smaller for her three dogs, trained, are used to terrorize those who approach him. At least that's what counts the Meritorious. A wooded area, extremely rugged and full of lush fir is the best hiding place. There feels like home, then in its infancy Mount was the main, if not the only resource for many families. Think you'll be able to survive with what it catches. It even has a small plantation of marijuana to get your cheerleading.
But the whole mountain is maria. The climate in the mountains is hard to excess. Inclement weather caused a dent in their physical and begins to lose kilos. He looks haggard. It will sour the mood. Not surprisingly, Grazalema Spain is the area where more rain.
Given the scarcity of food and the need for some tools, petty theft made pastors and stores nearby towns for not alert in Benamahoma, where his little more than 400 residents is common knowledge that during winters the fugitive is sheltered in caves of the mountain roads hidden among "inaccessible and rarely ventured." There hidden machetes and axes, weapons increasingly useful for him.
Their days become routine. With its knapsack on his back, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a packet of pills and a kind of fishing line, runs along the peaks in search of animals . Once hunted, the handle on a wood fire. Gradually becomes a being asocial. It is wild.
In September 2009, threatens to kill two police officers who caught practicing forest poaching. Both were held at gunpoint, they run scared. Fifteen months later, a hiker comes across him in the middle of the road and chases him away with his gun, but not before stealing food.
even cornered one night seeing a couple of guards civilians who make a routine raid, held up at gunpoint and forced him to flee floor. When does open some distance between the shadows run for cover.
could have killed them right there, but did not want to see blood. To his credit also applies to other small incidents that no author can be attributed to him simply for his reputation. All because at that time and is an easy target, a rural legend that demonize the area.
But the offense that moves the Civil Guard to try to stop it is committed again in January this year. The Lute docks at dawn the only gas station in El Bosque. Seeing it closed, no one thinks. Error. A guard watches over the establishment and attempts to prevent theft. In an act of pure rage, Antonio Manuel hit him repeatedly with his shotgun. In his subsequent flight, hit several shots into the air to be filled.
questions late in this whole affair: How a 35 year old man decided to take a profound change your life ? Perhaps childhood is the answer.
Legend has it the mother, Antonia, and no single type of support, was forced to move to Sevilla to "serve in a house." That was when the grandmother, Ana, nurse.
However, Antonia's mother, now a thin man of 60 years, with very short blond hair, Sevilla decided to take her son when he was only 10 years. That's where it started its "dysfunctional" . Started to meet guys older than him who abused drugs. And he, coming from the rural world, fascinated, succumbed and was initiated into the world of retail, which years later would lead to entry into prison.
But the hardest hit received by the twenty-first century highwayman came three years ago, when her grandmother died.
Manuel Antonio's mother lives in Benamahoma and ensures that after the arrest, the Meritorious exhibited his son "as a trophy."
sits beside her second husband, who prefers not to be named, and no panties girl who appeared on the arrest of Manolito. " She was there because every four or five days he carried a knapsack with food, but that night he was late " he says. The girl, perhaps captivated by the romance of being the mistress of an outlaw of the old school, carrying a backpack with cans, coffee, eggs and ran during a minute walk distance between your house of his bandit hideout.
The story is reminiscent of other outlaws who, in their fight to outlaw, found in the Andalusian mountain nooks to hide. And
Chaves children living in palaces, like the other "protectors" of the Board of Andalusia.
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