Thirteen years of prison… And expulsion from the national territory for a period of 10 years. This is what the prosecution is requesting Senegalese immigrant who ended a man’s life by stabbing him 17 stab wounds in the middle of the street Garrucha (Almeria) June 7, 2022. The trial will take place next week at Almería Provincial Court and will have a popular jury.
THE Provincial prosecutor’s office is considering seeking a sentence of 13 years in prison for one crime of homicide with the replacement of last third of the penalty that could possibly be imposed on him for expulsion from the national territory for a period of ten yearsas indicated in the provisional indictment document consulted by Europa Press.
According to the Public Ministrythe accused, who had 45 years old At the time of the events and legal residence in the country, he was dedicated to peddling just like the victim, so even if they knew each other, “they were hostility since recent dates.
In this situation, around 2 p.m. on the day of the events, both of them met in a gate of the Canteras Street in Garrucha and they would have started a discussion during which the accused, with a past that cannot be taken into account in this case, “turned around” and “received a blow” of the victim in the cheekbone.
This attack allegedly caused the accused to turn around and a fight broke out between the two. “mutual and voluntary aggression”during which the accused allegedly fired a 20 cm blade knife which he had hidden among his clothes, according to the accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office.
At that time, the victim allegedly threw a kick to his opponent with the intention that “drop the knife”, even though, because of this gesture, the victim himself fell to the ground, “which the accused took advantage of to lie on it“.
It was then that, “with the clear intention of ending his life”, the accused allegedly handed him over to 17 shots in different parts of the body, chest has membersone of which penetrated approximately ten centimeters in the sternum “perforating the right ventricle and tearing the lung” of the victim, which “caused a death“.
According to the minutes of the judicial proceedings, the members of the jury chaired by the magistrate Luis Colonna They must determine, among other aspects, whether there was a fight “voluntarily accepted” by both parties involved and whether the accused really had the “intention to kill” the individual. victim.
THE victimwho had 40 years oldwas married and the father of two children with whom he lived Garrucha. In this sense, the Prosecutor’s Office claims for the family of the deceased the payment of compensation of 450,000 euros in all.
The trial is expected to begin next Friday, September 27, with the formation of the jury and the statement of the accused, who, after the events, surrendered to the authorities. At the same session, the testimony of the witnesses should give way, on September 30, to the expertise and documentary evidence in order to reach the conclusions and final reports.
