Public Prosecution Service had requested 226 years in prison, but in the final allegations that took place today, the prosecutor of the case defended a more serious penalty: Permanent Prison Reevaluated periodically
The Spanish Public Prosecution Service today asked to be sentenced to permanent arrest the Portuguese accused of killing four people and injuring nine in a wedding in Madrid in November 2022.
In the start of the trial, in a court of Madrid, the prosecutor had requested 226 years in prison, but, in the final allegations that took place today, the attorney of the case defended a more serious penalty: permanent prison reevaluated periodically.
It is a conviction provided for in the Spanish Penal Code that can translate into practice in a life imprisonment if it is never altered by judges in successive reevaluation.
The Public Prosecution Service thus joined the private accusations -representing the families of the deadly victims -who also ask for permanent arrest for the accused.
According to the Spanish Attorney’s Office, on November 6, 2022, the man, born in 1987 and resident in Spain, intentionally launched the car he drove against guests from a wedding in Torrejón de Ardoz, in the Madrid region.
The prosecutor reiterated today in court, at the last trial session, that the man accelerated the car knowing that there were close people and who ran over them “with total desire to cause them to death or assuming that there was this possibility.”
It was an “brutality” act and there is no real regret on the part of the accused, the prosecutor considered.
The Portuguese defense argued, during the trial and in the final allegations of today, that the Portuguese was running away from a persecution and aggression of guests of the marriage and called for acquittal, considering that it is justified by the “unsurpassed fear” and the “state of necessity” of the accused at that time.
Private charges reiterated the request for permanent arrest and highlighted that, in the statement he made on Thursday in court, the man filed multiple contradictions.
The Portuguese said he got into the car, with two minor children, to escape the wedding guests, who following a discussion originated inside the party’s restaurant chased and threatened with death with “razors and pistols.”
According to the report he presented in court, he got in the car to abandon the scene, always honked for all people to move away and it was when he heard shots that he lowered and the vehicle accelerated “with the weight” of his body, thus denying the accusation that he did so intentionally.
The man assured that he was unaware of having run over people and that he only realized what had happened when, hours later, police stopped him in another area of the Madrid region.
“The car accelerated by the weight of my body. I had no intention of running over [ninguém]. They wanted to kill me with the pistols and the razors, “he said, ensuring that he heard an impact, he saw a mirror of the car broken when he got up, but saw no blood.
“I didn’t know I had run over these people,” he said.
Asked by the prosecutor’s prosecutor “the accelerator stepped”, the man replied that “automatically, the body, with fear, accelerated” and assured that the people who chased him from the inside of the restaurant shouted: “Portuguese, let’s kill you.”
The Portuguese is accused of four homicide crimes and nine more attempted murder.
In the prosecution’s accusation, to which Lusa had access, it is read that the defendant, known as “Portuguese” and with criminal records, went to the party of a wedding in Torrejón de Ardoz, with two children and two nephews, with one of these minors starred in an incident inside the restaurant, so the group was invited to leave the place, early in November 6, 2022.
The discussion continued outside the restaurant and it was, according to the prosecutor, that the accused drove to the car that had parked nearby and “accelerated the engine, knowing the presence of the people concentrated there.”
“With full desire to cause them death or assuming the possibility that this would happen, he ran over several of them,” read the document.
In the run over a 66 -year -old woman, two men, 68 and 37, and a 17 -year -old minor, all Spanish.
The man was tried by a popular jury and there is no date for a verdict and, if declared guilty, for the sentence.
