None of the five accused of the shooting murder of a 35-year-old man in December 2018 in Petrer, whose body appeared two months later in the trunk of a car in Alicante, has admitted his guilt in the statement given in the second session of the trial that is being held this week at the Alicante Court. The defendants have identified as the author of the shots that ended the life of Francisco Jesús CC a Colombian subject who fled to his country after the crime and He was imprisoned in Colombia for these events, although a court in Elda ended up decreeing, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the file of the proceedings for this investigated due to lack of evidence.
This Colombian citizen, known by the nickname “El Rubio”, came to testify in October from the Colombian prison where he was being held and pleaded not guilty. He assured that he did not know anything about the murder despite the fact that the rest of the witnesses who witnessed the events have located him at the scene of the crime and several point to him as the person who pulled the trigger.
The defendants, who only answered the questions of their defense attorneys and not those of the prosecutor in the case, also denied having planned a meeting at Petrer’s country house to end Fran’s life, suspecting that he had been the author. of the theft of a consignment of marijuana. On the contrary, several defendants indicated that the victim suspected that the drug had been stolen by a gypsy man from Villena and the idea was to help him recover it.
A defendant who rented the Petrer country house where the fatal shooting took place assured that the author was “El Rubio”, who sold marijuana with the victim, but did not initially identify him for “fear of reprisals, since he knew where he lives my family”. This defendant pointed out that he was in the car with Fran and another of the defendants and that when they arrived at the house the now deceased pulled out a gun when he saw “The blond” and “went for him.” They struggled and “The blond” ended up shooting him several timesaccording to this defendant.
Another of the defendants, who was wounded by a bullet in the shooting, stated that he did not want to be taken to a hospital for “fear of ‘El Rubio’.” Regarding the incident, he pointed out that he saw the victim get a weapon out of the car and “El Rubio” threw himself at him.
The trial resumes this Wednesday at the Hearing with the declaration of the police officers who investigated the crime and the experts.
«Don’t yell, they have shot my friend and they can come»
An elderly couple who lives in a country house next to the farm where the crime was committed gave a statement at the trial and said that the friend of the deceased, who is also being tried as one of the five accused of the murder, went to his home asking for help to call an ambulance and told them that “they were walking and they were shot”. The woman heard “two or three shots and I thought they were hunters.” A few moments later the friend of the deceased knocked on the door, who broke his ankles fleeing the place: “He was very ill and he said not to scream because his friend had been shot and they could come,” referring to the aggressors. The neighbor indicated that “the boy was very afraid” and assured them that he had already called the police.
A neighbor thought they were hunters when she heard the shots and says that the defendant who asked her for help “was afraid”
The friend of the deceased also declared yesterday as a defendant in the trial and reported that on the day of the events the victim told him “that they had stolen some marijuana plants and that some Colombians were going to help him recover them.” This defendant pointed out that he was at his grandmother’s house and that his friend Fran lived in his apartment where the police found a submachine gun after the crime, a weapon whose existence “he did not know”. He indicated that Fran was “very nervous” and that when they arrived at the country house he took a gun from the car and quickly left. “The blond” was there and when he saw the weapons he assures that he decided to flee and jumping broke “a leg.” Then he called 112 “twice” and jumped as best he could to the neighbors’ house.
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