The Widow of the Cape Miguel Angel Jimenezdied last December with the soldier Carlos Leon during certain maneuvers at the military base of Cerro Muriano (Cordoba)denounced in a letter that carrying out the exercise, which consisted of crossing an artificial length, was “madness”.
In her writings, the woman was “convinced” that The deaths of the two soldiers “could have been avoided without a doubt” and “the exercise would have been paralyzed if they had not had the necessary means to prevent any misfortune”, which is why he hopes that “the full weight of the law will fall on those responsible for his death”.
Last July, the president of the Central Military Court 2 of Madrid, which is investigating the case, issued an indictment against six barracks commanders, including a captain, a lieutenant, a sergeant, a lieutenant colonel, a major and a colonel, whom he initially released provisionally.
Maria José, widow of Corporal Jiménez, reported in her writings that She heard the news “on the radio” and was “paralyzed”while reiterating that “more colleagues could have died that day as the exercise developed.”
“I knew that they had maneuvers of the Basic Training Plan that week, that they were very busy because weeks before they had done maneuvers in Zaragoza and that they did not have much time for everything that was asked of them before the Christmas holidays,” he states in the letter. Furthermore, he assures that the corporal complained that “he did not have time to do everything that they had planned to do” and that it was “It is madness to carry out this plan under these circumstances“, although “always He said resignedly that orders had to be followed.“.
SO, advocated “changing the system” to avoid a similar event and thanked the “support” of the deceased’s colleagues and those who supported her with “sensitivity, love and delicacy.”
