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The house where the fugitive from Jewish Vale Fernando “Careca” was hidden
The inhabitants of Castanheira de Chã, in Trás-os-Montes, lived with a prisoner of the arrest of Vale dos Jews without knowing it.
The small transmontana village of Chã Castanheira, in Montalegre, was the scene of the media capture of one of the fugitives of the arrest of Vale dos Jews in Lisbon.
Since then, some residents have been attending, have watched a growing interest in the area: all because of, in a abandoned houseif you have recaptured Fernando “Careca” last year. He was hiding there for some time and interacted with the population, who suspected but did not believe the fugitive’s identity.
At the time, a village even said the prisoner looked friendly and polite with everyone. “I said he seemed to be one of the fugitives in the Jewish Valley jail. No one believed because no one thought that a man of those was going to hide in a village as small as ours. ”
Now, in the village with less than 100 people, 5 houses were sold in the short two weeks. Who says it is the real estate agent Jorge Nogueira himself. “Sometimes we have forgotten villages. People had no notion of this village. Everyone turns to the area of Gerês,” he laments.
But everything changed, “Castanheira de Chã jumped to the televisions,” he says, and “People, out of curiosity, began to go to the weekend. Then they started going to the restaurant in the area, spoke to the village people who are very friendly. ”
“A lot of people came out of curiosity and ended up like the village. Homes near ‘Fernando Careca’ had great demand“. A true influencer? It seems like yes. Some houses had several contacts.
“For about 15 years I have been having that area and suddenly I started selling houses. It is a beautiful territory that is hidden and, with this bad news, was eventually discovered,” says the real estate agent.
But resident Emilia Dias leaves a warning: they remain without inhabitants, and this is not a step forward.
“We are less and less working in the fields. This can even change a lot, but for now, nothing is noted. What is noted is that people are here looking for smaller houses and these, who are still for sale, are great. Are houses for tourism They are not to come here people to live, ”he says.
