José Luis N. denies remembering, when he was 23 years old, Sergio Delgado, 32, from Valladolid, on February 24, 2024 in which. The witnesses and the investigation have corroborated this week in court that the accused attacked the victim “because he was from Valladolid”, upon receiving an affirmative answer to his question of “Are you from Pucela?” The defendant has admitted the blow, which since then, and has recounted those hours after the event with inaccuracies regarding what he declared when he was arrested. Less detail is shown to inform about why he attacked him. “The last memory I have is ‘what’s up with this guy?’” he assured, slipping in a possible offense by the victim, although no one else of those mentioned has alluded to provocative or violent behavior by Delgado. The man from Burgos regretted the events through tears: “That punch is the worst decision I have made in my life.”
The person involved spoke before the judge this Thursday, in the corresponding interrogation, and this Friday in his turn to have the last word. “I would like to address Sergio Delgado’s family,” he began, begging for the “opportunity” to ask for their forgiveness and express his “repentance,” although the victim’s father and mother left the room before his words and only the sister remained. “I would do anything, I would give my life to give them their son back,” she said through tears, attributing the events to an “impulse” that should not have happened and that she did not wish what happened on anyone. The Prosecutor’s Office demands 14 years in prison for manslaughter against him, for murder. The perpetrator has expressed his regret through tears and has maintained that the knowledge in martial arts that is attributed to him does not correspond to reality, since he alleges that he went to that gym but did not train in them, something that has been confirmed by the center’s instructor.
The twenty-year-old explained that he spoke with Delgado and his group that night, with high alcohol consumption on both sides, and thus learned the origin of those friends who were celebrating a bachelor party in Burgos. He has insisted that he learned of the Valladolid origin of the young graphic designer, resident in Madrid, “five minutes” before the fatal impact, although a friend of his has reduced the time to “two minutes” since the “Are you from Pucela?” was heard. A worker at the night bar has pointed out that the bachelor party group had a pleasant attitude all night, while the establishment’s doorman has contributed that the attacker’s friends were wearing scarves from the Burgos soccer team and that they had occasionally caused an argument, but not “fights.” Another colleague of the accused has stated that he met him in another part of the city, shortly after the attack, and that he was nervous and repeating: “I hit the one I messed up.”
The accused has denied being “violent” or having a criminal record and has argued that the punch occurred several minutes after knowing that they were from Valladolid. Once the victim fell, he stressed that he was scared and that he left the scene without knowing what to do until the next morning when he found out that he had died and in the afternoon, when several witnesses had pointed towards him, he went to the police station after confessing the facts to his mother. There he acknowledged that he initially lied to the officers, claiming that he had not been there that night, but as soon as the police pressed him he ended up admitting it, something he attributed to nerves. Police investigations revealed that he was linked to extreme left groups and linked to the radical fans of Burgos CF in and social with Valladolid. José Luis N. has denied this affinity and has maintained that the extremist pamphlets found in a fanny pack were from earlier times.
The forensic experts have stated during their interventions this week that Delgado died as a result of the frontal impact and the brain damage caused by the fall when he hit his head on the ground. Medical experts have indicated that the victim’s consumption of alcohol contributed to his inability to recover from the damage, since alcohol slows down the body’s ability, and they have attributed the death to the strong impact suffered. The sessions have passed with great emotion and suffering for the family of the deceased, crying often and being reprimanded by the judge when he urged them not to sob so much, although he later apologized for the lack of tact. The parents of the man from Valladolid have expressed their pain over the loss while the mother of the person involved has expressed her condolences in addition to defending her son: “José Luis is a good person.”
