Biography Matías Montero and Rodriguez of Trujillo was born in Madrid in 1913. Medical career began at the Universidad Central de Madrid. Like many students of that time joined in the first instance to the WAS (International School University) in Madrid.
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When in 1931 the weekly "The conquest of the state" founded by Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Matías write a letter of support to the newspaper, coincidentally on February 9, that is, just three years before his death. In that letter could be read as follows:"sincerely convinced that their ideology is to open a saving way in the current political and social turmoil, sending my support of course and please send me brochures explaining in detail what will be the party. I am a medical student and I have 17, but I need very little time to be eighteen. "
Soon he becomes a member of the Boards of National-Syndicalist Offensive (JONS) and in late 1933 when and has 20 years, is one of the first members of the English Falange, standing out as one of the most enthusiastic activists Falangist cause, which led him to write in the "Phalanges University" the weekly "Faith".
the shelter of the English Falange in November 1933 comes a new student organization: the English Union University (SEU), who lead several young Falangist Larrañaga as Manuel Valdes, Alejandro Allanegui, David Jato, Alejandro Salazar, who joined Matías Montero. In drafting the first constitution of the English Union University, helps Julio Ruiz de Alda. These statutes are unfairly rejected by the Ministry of the Interior on 10 November 1933. The University
, Falangists are not alone, because in front of them was the powerful Federation of University School (WAS), which was losing its relevance it had in other times, as he had dominated most of the students, to become a stronghold of the left, intended to be imposed on other students. For WAS, the SEU was a major obstacle.
Matías was devoted to recruiting new members and also participated in the daily sales of the weekly "Faith" by the streets of Madrid, at times acting in security duties to the hawkers.
violence reds
occasion of the appearance of the weekly "Faith", it started a huge offensive against the publication, denying the public kiosks and sales professionals to its dissemination, which had to perform selling their own party members. There were reds weekly to organize your time on the streets of persecution and violence against the Falange.
And so, on January 11, 1934 was shot and killed the young Francisco de Paula Sampol, who had just acquired the newspaper in the Calle de Alcala.
the 27th of January was murdered in the street Clavel, the foreman of sale of the weekly "Faith", Vincent Perez.
On February 3, on the Gran Via, were shot and wounded two students of English Falange selling newspaper.
also were murdered José Ruiz de la Hermosa, Manuel Rodríguez Gimeno, José García Vara, Tom Polo, Juan Lara, Manuel Carrión and Juan Cuellar of 18 who killed him smashing his head with a stone ... Such violence
lacked any sense of retaliation, because at this time English Falange did not occasion for it.
The situation of both the rulers and members was truly alarming, since the recipients of the violence unleashed by the Reds, but they could take remedial measures and effective.
These fierce attacks and abuses against English Falange, sometimes resulting in death "came from the socialist camp, being incubated and prepared in their Youth, which in this way, ten months before the infamous October Revolution, began to assume capacity for armed struggle. Anyway you could not blame the direct intervention of the Young Socialists as implementers of these brutalities, as they merely hold a band, whose members were generally not members of them-but people pay for extremists who perceived their interventions.
Matías Montero's murder
Madrid On the evening of Friday, February 9, 1934, Matías after participating in the sale of No. 6 "FE" returns to his home on Calle Marques de Urquijo, 21 - 3, in the neighborhood of Argüelles. Matthias, who is an orphan, lives with his two brothers and aunts, Rafaela and Rosario, the first clerk and the second presenter of the Telephone Company.
Quintana in the street a few blocks from home, says goodbye to Bonet, friend who accompanied him there. Matthias, continues its journey through the streets Juan Alvarez de Mendizabal, where they are expecting two leftists. One of them is Francisco Tello Tortajada, workers affiliated with the PSOE and the Young Socialists and a member of "Vindication," a group led by Santiago Carrillo. Matías Montero
not have time to see their attackers, and betrayal by two shots back, you reach the heart, causing rapid death to young Falangist. His murderer even went to finish him off, and on the floor, with three shots in the womb, after which he fled, leaving Matthew lying on the ground, surrounded by a pool of blood.
Arrest and trial of criminal Francisco Tello This time, unlike others, the murderer is caught, thanks to the rapid action police inspector Arenillas Justin Knight.
On February 19, 1934, Francisco Tello Tortajada is judged by emergency procedure, acting José Antonio Primo de Rivera, attorney for the prosecution.
view of the case against the murderer of student Matias Montero
A proposal of a private prosecutor, Mr. Primo de Rivera, is taught a letter acknowledging the defendant, to the President of the Socialist Youth. This letter complains that his comrades would not let him make a dangerous plan and was willing to assume all responsibilities.
- Primo de Rivera: What was that plan?
- Process: tobacco, members of the UGT.
- Primo de Rivera: You said you did not know that was sold that day the newspaper "FE." Why did you have in your pocket another paper containing the news that next Thursday would be sold at the weekly "Faith"?
- Process: Because I thought the sellers watch if they were carrying weapons.
- Primo de Rivera: Do you not know the deceased?
- Processing: No.
- Primo de Rivera: So, why kill him? ...
Report
private prosecution - Don José Antonio Primo de Rivera announces an indictment shortly.
- With sobriety and fairness concerns the fact. Tello treacherously killed the student Matías Montero. He was shot, he continued without interruption and was arrested almost immediately. Processing excuses are weak and unproven, witnesses justifying the certainty of adversarial argument.
- justifies the three alleged aggravating: treachery, which characterizes the murder, manslaughter and cruelty.
- The accused is a friend of all who have made such cowardly acts as now pursued. According to him, came to the prison to visit the suspected killer of student Francisco de Paula Sampol, and talking about his past life concerns Tejada, charged with the death of Don Vicente Perez.
- He escaped to Tello's claim that he knew of an organization prepared to commit these barbaric attacks have been suffering the effects of society. Everything shows that it had formed a gang to kill members of the English Falange. - The fact is apparent premeditation of those ends have been accredited.
- The cruelty, to appreciate, just pick up the techniques of forensic statements. The last shots were fired and knocked over the victim. Before concluding his eloquent report, Mr Primo de Rivera, with deep emotion, talks about how horrible the crime, cold, quietly committed.
The Board has to come down in flames, forcing the defendant the full extent of the law.
ago advocating a bright young specimen, perfect gentleman, a model student, a lover of his homeland, and Rodriguez Montero Matias Trujillo, incapable of any action impure, but ready to defend the social order in which the Holocaust was slain.
The Nation, February 19, 1934
Tello was sentenced to 23 years and 3 months in prison, did not meet to be benefited by the amnesty granted in 1936 by leftist Popular Front.
Legacy and Burial of Matías Montero
Among the clothes of the corpse of Jerry, he hid an article entitled "The arrows of Ferdinand and Isabella," which he wrote for the magazine "WITNESS." It traced the lines to get a "clean passions University, compact block of teachers and students eager to march towards culture in the service of his country."
On the afternoon of February 10 Falangists several hundred, and nearly a thousand friends and supporters of the English Falange, attending the funeral of Matías Montero, in the cemetery the Sacramental de Santa María, on the banks of the Manzanares in Madrid. Many martial training Falangists go to fallen comrade singing the beautiful song of Germanic origin entitled "I had a comrade." Escorting the casket in a funeral procession from the Plaza of Joy to the cemetery. The funeral takes place with great emotion, quietly and without cries of hatred or rancor. José Antonio Primo de Rivera, open at the tomb contains the remains of Matthew, says these few words:
"Here, on land, one of our best comrades. It gives us the great lesson of silence. Others, comfortably, we would advise from their homes to be more courageous, more combative, more hard in retaliation. It is very easy to advise. But Matías Montero did not advise or speak: simply go outside to do his duty, knowing that probably awaited him in the street of death. He knew because he had announced. Shortly before his death he said: "I know that I am threatened with death, but I do not care if it's for the good of Spain and its cause." It was not long before fully give him a bullet in the heart, where they purge their love for Spain and his love of the Falange "
" Brother and comrade Matias Montero and Rodriguez de Trujillo! Thank you your example. "
"May God give you eternal rest and denies us rest until we win for Spain the crop planting your death."
"For the last time: Matías Montero and Rodriguez of Trujillo."
All attendees to the invocation rearward fallen comrade's name, answer "Present!", Raising his arms in a Roman salute.
"It's quite easy to"
Some publishers of Rights, beginning with his usual spokesman, the newspaper ABC, began to suggest his criticism, irony too severe, and so on the morning of the day was to celebrate the funeral of the young Montero, a royal aide daily, commenting on the performance of the Falange, wrote: "... The public expects more than the strong protest of rigor in the newspapers about immediate retaliation ... and nothing. " Then he added that fascism and was just literature, but constituted "a risk to adversaries." Hence the discourse of José Antonio in the cemetery, responding to pain such criticism with the phrase: "It's very easy to advise."
Whatever the rarefied atmosphere a little about English Falange, the organization published a note in the press, with the following paragraph: "English Falange not look anything like a criminal organization, nor intend to copy the methods of such organizations, many unofficial stimuli receive "José Antonio
the first anniversary of the murder of Matthew Montero
On the first anniversary of the death of Matthias Montero, understood as ultimate act of service, José Antonio Primo de Rivera wrote the following article:
" Last night in Salamanca, sheltered in a room under the roof, pine stairs poor light among some comrades in good stock of Leon, short on smiles and praise, we pass the anniversary of Matías Montero. As the room was unadorned ceremony, a word from Salazar and Bravo, some words of mine and a silence that no one won, but had, in authenticity, much better sense that rituals minutes of silence.
I told the comrades in Salamanca and I say now: Matías Montero's martyrdom is not just for us a lesson on the meaning of death, but about the meaning of life. Do you remember you, the first hour, one of the things they are trying to get depressed? We were told: "There will succeed, to pursue a movement like your people need to have hardened big. " The English risked and gave their lives. And Spain and the Falange Matías Montero gave theirs. Good
touchstone is it to know the quality of our intent. When we doubt, when dismayed, when we rush the terror of chasing ghosts if you will walk, say: No!, This is great, this is true, it is fruitful, otherwise he would not have given their lives, that he, like English , estimated in its tremendous value-Matías Montero eternity. "
Fallen Student Day
The Ministry of National Education by order of February 5, 1938, declared a public holiday, in all schools of the English State, 9 February each year, Fallen Student Day, the anniversary of the death of Matías Montero, Phalange killed in the streets of Madrid where sold the weekly "Faith", in order to perpetuate "this example to the young generations in the assiduous study and passionate, or masculine and bloody struggle, till the stones of the Imperial Spain"
This work was downloaded from: http://www.generalisimofranco.com De Eduardo Palomar Baró.
SEU La Falange and celebrate their tribute to Matías Montero 
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