The AVF of Pontevedra, Capiknown for having attacked Mariano Rajoy in 2015 in Pontevedra, requests that the full defense of mental alteration be applied to him in order not to go to prison for attempted assassination of a journalist. The fourth section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra abandoned this trial for sentencing, which took place throughout the morning of this Thursday. The accused only answered his lawyer’s questions and assured that his intention was not to kill the editor-in-chief, whom he did not know at all, but that his action was directed “against the press in general” for what he considers to be media harassment. suffered since the episode with the former President of the Government. “I wanted them to leave me alone with the publications.” “I wanted to dissuade journalists and make myself respected,” he declared, reports Europa Press.
That day, July 14, 2023, he had already addressed the delegation of Pontevedra Newspaperwhich is near his home, and around 1:40 p.m. he went to the offices of The voice of Galicia. “I felt very frustrated because I have been subjected to media harassment for years,” he said, adding that he had lost “my mind”. “I had no intention, I didn’t want to hurt anyone,” added this young man who, he remembers, has been under psychiatric treatment for many years, who has attempted suicide seven times and this , on the day of the attack and the day before, he insisted, he had used cocaine and alcohol.
According to him, when he entered the facilities of The voice of Galicia He told an administrator that he was the one who “hit Rajoy” and, immediately afterward, he began “breaking everything, the computers, the screens.” She ran away. The accused said that later, a journalist who was in the newsroom appeared and “lunged at me and then ran away,” he said. He also admitted to having hit him with a rolling pin but maintains that it was the journalist who jumped on him to snatch the knife. He also stated that he does not clearly remember the moment of his arrest by the police. The accused appeared very nervous in the courtroom and the trial even had to be interrupted for several minutes.
The prosecutor assures that he is the author of the offense of attempted murder, for which he is asking for eight years in prison, seven of supervised release and ten of prohibition from approaching and communicating with his victim. In addition, he is accused of a crime of damage for destroying ten computer screens and a television worth 2,221 euros, for which he is asked to pay a fine of 1,690 euros, and another offense of resistance for having opposed the arrest by the national police for those asking for 4,140 euros. During the arrest, a police officer was injured.
For his part, the defense attorney requests that a complete mental alteration defense be applied to the defendant or, alternatively, a felony aggravated bodily injury with an incomplete mental alteration defense. In all cases, request admission to a specialized psychiatric center. The mother of the accused also asked: “I want my son to be healed. He’s 26, you can still do something, but if you don’t go to a center, you can’t do anything. Likewise, private prosecution attorneys who practice The voice of Galicia and the injured police officer agree to emphasize the existence of an incomplete defense.
For her part, the victim declared that she was protected behind a screen and explained that that day, she was at the back of the editorial office when she heard “a crash” which she interpreted as a fall. on the stairs. He saw his partner running away and encountered the attacker who began attacking him. “He first raised a stick” – which turned out to be a rolling pin – “I covered myself with my arm, leaned back and saw that he was taking out a knife from his size,” he recalls. Immediately, according to the victim’s account, the defendant pulled out an approximately 18-centimeter kitchen knife and stabbed him several times, hitting him once in the chest, hands and arm.
“The image I have is like the one in the film Psychosis“, the editor noted, “he was pointing the knife anywhere” until at one point, “he took a step back, I saw a gap and ran away.” Blood tests rule out that the accused consumed cocaine on the day of the incident. Forensic experts speak of “dissociative disorders” and polytoxic harmful consumption and specify that he has “problems in the ability to control his impulses”. .
Criminal history
This attack against the journalist occurred the same week in which the accused was convicted with his consent by the Criminal Court 1 of Ourense for an altercation in a bar in December 2020. He hit a man in the head and said “You are all going to die” after they asked him to leave the premises for saying slogans in favor of ETA.
The criminal record of this young man also shows that in 2019 an extrajudicial agreement allowed him to be acquitted of the crime of minor injuries for having attacked the provincial coordinator of Vox in Pontevedra, Juan Manuel Rosales, in March of the same year . On the day of the trial, he met his victim in court, admitted what he had done and asked her for forgiveness. When the accused attacked Rajoy, he was a minor and was sentenced to two years of detention in a closed center for minors, which he served entirely in Monte Ledo (Ourense).
