Wearing dark blue slippers, with bruised feet and difficulty speaking, Luis Mariano was brought this Tuesday from his retirement home to the Provincial Court of Toledo. Aged 91, he and his son were going to be tried in the second section as alleged perpetrators of a crime of procedural fraud, in a case between neighbors concerning a warehouse in the small town of Santa Ana de Pusa. “I’m going to bed”repeated this old man with the tenor name several times before entering the courtroom with small steps. When the president of the court, María Jiménez, saw him, she told him, raising her voice, to go out and stay with her daughter in the hall, where she was waiting for her son, unaware of what was happening inside. ‘interior.
Until yesterday, Monday, the family had not informed Luis Mariano’s lawyer about the Alzheimer’s disease from which he suffers and his cognitive deterioration. This is why the lawyer was only able to contribute shortly before the trial. the reports which prove his illness and which prevented the hearing against the old man from taking place, as the prosecutor rightly pointed out in his speech.
With papers in hand, The representative of the Public Ministry decided to withdraw the accusation against Luis Mariano and maintain it against his sonFrancisco, who agreed on a penalty with the parties and admitted the facts. “They had a private contract of purchase and sale and they occupied a ship thinking it was theirs,” their lawyer, Carmen Sánchez Durán, told ABC at the end of the hearing.
According to Jesus’ lawyer, the real owner, “I left it a long time ago for storage.”. “As he was going to retire, he told them several times to give it back to him, but they wouldn’t. The father had passed it on to his son, who was opposed to it being given to my client,” the lawyer continued.
In 2020, Jesús filed a lawsuit for eviction for precariousness, the aim of which is to recover possession of a property, and Francisco responded by presenting a contract. This document indicated that it had been sold for one million eight hundred thousand pesetas on November 12, 1991.. However, Jesús said it was not his signature that appeared next to Francisco’s and a handwriting test confirmed it was not his.
But Francisco decided not to leave the warehouse where he kept the tools, and so Jesús filed a complaint. A subsequent assessment carried out by a national police sub-inspector also concluded that the signature did not belong to the owner.who did not recover the ship in a town of approximately 350 inhabitants.
This story ended this morning in Toledo court. In the courtroom of the Second Section, Francisco accepted four months in prison – the charges requested eleven –as well as a three-month fine, at a rate of three euros per day, and payment of 5,348 euros as civil liability. Luis Mariano, his father, then returned to the nursing home, unaware of what had happened.
