One of the young people who attacked the home of Pau Rigo in Porreres in 2018 was arrested this Saturday for allegedly attacking, with others, a man for an alleged debt, in Palma.
According to sources close to the investigation, The event occurred around 5 a.m. this Saturday, in the La Soledad neighborhood, when a group of people summoned the victim to a squatted house to ask him for money. After failing to respond to the request, the man was tied up and beaten, they added.
In this context, the victim began to scream for help. The screams were heard by a police patrol who approached the house and had to use force to gain access inside and release the man, who had to be transferred to the Son Espases University Hospital, due to a facial fracture.
During this action, the agents arrested a total of four people, among whom was one of the young people who attacked the house of Paul Rigo, the old man from Porreres (Mallorca) who killed one of the attackers.
To these four arrests, we must add two others made this Saturday afternoon, after agents of the Judicial Police of the National Police took charge of the investigation, being able to identify the rest of the people involved in this event.
The detainees are due to appear in court next Monday.
In addition, The trial against Pau Rigo and three of the people who planned and executed the theft continues this Monday with witness statements. Concretely, it is expected that from Monday’s session, the Civil Guard agents who went to the scene of the events and who participated in the investigation will begin to appear.
This will be the third day of the popular jury trial during which the old man, then aged 78, faces a request for four years in prison from the prosecution. The private prosecution, which represents the family of the deceased attacker, requests that he be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Last Friday, all four defendants testified. While the two Campos residents who planned the theft admitted the facts of which the prosecutor accused them – with the aim of having their sentence reduced -, There were discrepancies between the version offered by the surviving attacker and that of Rigo.
The octogenarian assured that the thieves, brothers among themselves, had hit him several times and that, added to the fact that he thought they were looking for more money than he actually had and that he had suffered a violent robbery months before, making him fear for his life and that of his wife.
According to his account, he took a hunting rifle – which he had loaded – with the intention of intimidating the attackers so that they would leave his home. However, he said, one of them lunged at him and tried to hit him in the head with a goat’s leg, to which he pulled “a bully.”
For his part, the attacker denied that the robbery took place with violence and that his brother intended to hit Rigo with the aforementioned iron. When they came back up from the basement, where the safe they had looted was located, they found the old man pointing the shotgun at them.
“I’m sure he didn’t want what happened to happen. “I am aware that I was a provocateur, I was wrong, but I think that this weapon should not have been used,” said the thief, for whom the prosecution is asking for six years in prison and his defense only one .
