Perhaps the reason why Zamora’s man, Manuel Telo, will fight ad nauseam to clarify one of the most tarnished crimes, not only in Extremadura, but in Spain, was possible because a book, which tells the whole truth, has brought along with several readers in the Ler Zamora bookstore.
A book published by the writer, Luis Roso, about a crime that took place in 1915, in his hometown – even in mine. And I’m not going to lie to you, so many things have been heard and continue to be heard about what happened that a publication like Roso’s was needed.
The man from Zamora, Manuel Telo, was instrumental in the development of this book. For a month he wrote three thousand pages of the trial, to which Roso had access and which allowed, among many others, that today we can have a piece of everything that happened in our hands.
With all this, Telo fought ad nauseam to save the guilty, who weren’t. Something that affected his personal life until the last few days. An example of strength, faith and struggle.
In the summer of 1915, five people were brutally shot dead – a man, two girls and two women, one of them pregnant – on a farm in Moraleja (Cáceres). As a result, five peasants were sentenced to life imprisonment after an obscure judicial process by which the authorities tried to hide the real killers.
The specter of a first-rate conspiracy, which could involve political figures, officers of the Civil Guard and even the landowner who owns the estate, the Earl of Malladas, hovered over the case from the beginning, and it became so important that it became test la stability of the political and judicial system. Since then, and until this documented investigation, much silence and darkness have contemplated this dramatic crime.
It has only been on the market for a week and is at the top of the sales list in the genre of real events. It’s regular. Not only for the residents of the municipality of Moraleja who have heard about this crime for years, but also for all those who one day learned what happened on that small farm in mid-July.
