Kevin Pastor, an ultra “200%” convicted of ‘hunts’ and convinced that the Holocaust is a lie

It was eight minutes past midnight on March 5, 2016. Several men with shaved heads, T-shirts with the word Skin (of skin headsshaved heads) and zippers with swastikas drink in a bar in Madrid. They belong to the most radical faction of a neo-Nazi group. Among them is Kevin Pastor, then a teenager, but today, at 24 years old, the man arrested for allegedly killing Borja Villacís. Two boys with far-left aesthetics pass in front of the establishment and Kevin and two of his friends go out looking for a fight. This, in his slang, is called go hunting. For one of the two victims it almost turned out to be a fatal encounter, because one of the elders of the far-right group tried to stick a knife into her chest. He manages to defend himself against her, but receives a 2.5 centimeter cut across his face from his right ear to his lip. For this fact, Kevin will receive his first court sentence, a measure of confinement in a juvenile center. Eight years later, he faces many years in prison for the murder of the brother of the former vice mayor of Madrid.

Vicente Manjón, one of his educators at the reform center, was so shocked by the anger that this teenager stored inside that, years later, he has written a book of stories about his experiences at the center and Kevin is the protagonist of a chapter that its titled The hunt. “I taught the values ​​education class and I remember that in one of the sessions we watched a BBC documentary about the Holocaust. All the kids were very shocked by the images of the concentration camps, but he did not feel any empathy, he was convinced that everything was a lie,” he recalls.

The educator remembers him as a young man so deeply involved in extreme right-wing movements that he even tried to teach his classmates. “He always wanted to be the leader and stand out, when he spoke everyone was silent, he was always alert,” remembers this former worker at the center.

Kevin’s mother, María José, also arrested for this crime and the one who is supposed to have been driving the car in which her son and another accomplice were traveling, was noted in those months in which Kevin served his sentence. The educator points out that his attitude was not cooperative, that he blamed the justice system for his son being locked up and that he filed complaints every time his son had a sanction for having broken the center’s rules. He accumulated several of them, some by confronting other boys and others by drawing drawings of Nazi symbols on the walls. The father, from whom the now detained woman has been separated for many years, was more favorable to the reintegration of his son, but he also warned the educators that the Nazi ideology had penetrated too much into his head and it was very difficult to get it out. from there.

There is evidence on the networks that the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Villacís, shot on a road in El Pardo on Tuesday, joined neo-Nazi groups when he was very young, something he shared with his deceased victim. He was one of the violent puppies who join far-right movements to feel included in a group. “Ultra 200%,” responds an expert source in the world of radical groups when asked about the degree of his involvement with the group. That was his life from a very young age, attacking those he considered his opponents, taking photos raising his right hand and posing with knives.

The sentence in which the adult was convicted of the bar attack states that Kevin was called to testify in that trial on behalf of his neo-Nazi companion, but that, when the judicial authority notified him of the summons, the father alleged that he He had gone to live with his mother, and she claimed that he had gone to live in Edinburgh.

The latest evidence of his criminal actions is that he had climbed one step higher and had been arrested for drug trafficking, for which he spent time in prison. Lately, his illegal activities were aimed at theft and modification of vehicles, precisely what he is seen doing in the video of the escape after the crime that went viral. At the time of the events, he remained wanted and captured.

The end of his hasty escape came when he was trying to change hiding places, after having taken refuge in an occupied chalet in Yuncos (Toledo). When he became aware of the police presence, he tried to escape, but was surrounded. Now, he remains detained with his mother and his friend waiting to be brought to justice and, predictably, to enter preventive detention. This time, for a crime of blood.

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