The widow of Corporal Miguel Ángel Jiménezdied last December with soldier Carlos León during maneuvers in the military base of Muriano Hill (Córdoba), denounced in a letter that her husband had already warned her a few days before that carrying out the exercise, which consists of crossing an artificial length, was “madness”.
The woman is “convinced” that the deaths of the two soldiers “could undoubtedly have been avoided.” exercise if they did not have the means to prevent a misfortune from happening. “To hell with the time when the crossing of the lake was ordered,” adds María José in the letter sent to the media.
Corporal’s widow reveals that He discovered it “on the radio”” of the “worst news” of his life. “I was working and I was paralyzed. I never imagined that it was my husband. I started looking for information, calling friends and colleagues, until a few minutes later they called me from the Cerro Muriano base to tell me that they were looking for him on the training ground. At that moment I entered shock“At no point was I told he was in the lake,” he explains.
Maria José points out that on that fateful Thursday, December 21, “other colleagues could have died as the exercise developed,” she denounces. In fact, her husband had already warned her a few days before that this exercise “was crazy.” They had to cross a lake about 100 meters long without using your handsjust a kick. In addition to the uniform, helmet, boots and rifle, they carried a backpack weighing about 12 kilos.
“I knew that they had Basic Training Plan exercises that week and that they were very busy because weeks before they had done exercises in Zaragoza and They didn’t have much time to do everything that was asked of them. before the Christmas holidays,” she explains in the letter, recalling that her husband complained but “always said with resignation that the orders “they had to be filled.”
Maria José pleaded for “change the system” to avoid a new tragedy and asks that “the full weight of the law falls on those responsible for his death.” “From the brigadier general to the Minister of Defense, they should be charged, because they were the main people responsible for the Cerro Muriano base and the army,” he says.
“It is unimaginable that my husband went to do his job and did not come back because he died in these circumstances. Our army defends Spain, but, Who defends them?” he asks. Finally, the woman thanked the “support” of the victims’ colleagues and those who supported her with “sensitivity, love and delicacy.”
Last July, let us recall, the president of the Central Military Court No. 2 of Madrid, responsible for investigating the case, issued an order of prosecution against six controls of the cantonment (a captaina lieutenant, a sergeant, a lieutenant-colonel, a major and a colonel) whom he initially released provisionally.
