The repetition of the trial against Paul Rigothe old man of Porreres (Mallorca) accused of kill a thief who broke in your house in 2018began this Thursday at the Provincial Court of Palma with the constitution of the popular jury.
The jury configuration will be followed by the parties’ previous reports. The hearing will continue the next day, from 10 a.m., with the interrogations of the accused. The trial could last until November 22.
It should be remembered that the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJB) ordered the repetition of the trial. declaring null the sentence which in December 2023 acquitted the retireewhen considering an appeal from the prosecutor’s office.
The trial ended with a verdict that initially interpreted as condemnatorybut after finding that a sufficient majority had not been reached, a series of appeals were launched by which Finally, the judge pronounced the acquittalan extreme to which the Prosecution appealed and whose appeal led to the repetition.
The prosecutor accuses the attackers of robbery with violence in an inhabited house and injuries, while maintaining the accusation of homicide against the elderly man.
The alleged events occurred in February 2018 on a farm in Porreres (Mallorca) when committing a theft.
The prosecution requires the crime of theft with violence 5 year prison sentencefor the offense of injury 1 year in prison and for the offense of homicide 4 years in prison.
The public prosecutor is asking one of the attackers to pay the pensioner 25,000 euros for the injuries, while Rigo is expected to pay 100,000 euros to the family of the attacker who lost his life.
They demand the acquittal of Pau Rigo
The defense of Pau Rigo, provided by the lawyer Eduardo Valdiviacalls for acquittal, placing emphasis on self-defense, with particular emphasis on the fact that after the two hooded men entered his house armed with goat legs and tried to attack the old man when they were surprised in mid-flight, he, avoiding the attack, shot in a gesture of defense, but without any intention of ending the thief’s lifen, that as the old man was not wearing his glasses, he could not even make out.
The Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJB) ordered the repetition of the trial, declaring null and void the sentence that acquitted the pensioner in December 2023, confirming an appeal from the prosecution.
Pau Rigo, from 78 years old at this timeconfront a murder charge for the death of one of the thieves. Three other men will be tried alongside him: two Campos residents accused of planning the robbery and a third allegedly accused of carrying out the hit, the twin brother of the deceased thief.
During the attack – the second suffered by the elderly couple in a few months, in an isolated country house –Rigo managed to grab a shotgun and shot one of themwho died.
