Author of the crime of JM bar in Badajoz: “I thought they were going to kill my brother”

The accused reported I have”panic” victimsHe knew they were “aggressive” people, despite the fact that he only knew them by “seeing” and did not have any friendly relations with them.. “I’ve been scared ever since I saw them enter the bar,” he said. The defendant explained that the victim and his cousin first came to the bar around 4:30 p.m. on 24 December and repeatedly threatened him with “kill and rape” until he left for dinner at around ten o’clock in the evening. her daughter and partner, besides burning down the bar, is run by her older brother but was working there as a waitress that day.

Despite this alleged harassment, she decided not to call the police to avoid reprisals, as both were armed, she reassured: cousin who died by a short gun and with a knife. JMMC stated that he had been drinking between “16 to 20” that day, and because of the nervousness caused by the victims, he also took two 1-gram tablets of Trankimazin, a medication he had prescribed for borderline personality disorder. for “three or four years”.

The accused stated He planned to go home at seven in the morning, but Jonathan FH and his cousin returned to the building around 6:45 am., the blinds were half closed and there were only regulars inside. In his statement, the defendant said he was behind the bar when he saw Jonathan “covering up” while talking to his brother and cousin at the door. At the moment when the deceased throws his arm at his brother, he ran towards them and shot him with the gun he said was not in the bar but was in his belt.. After the first two shots, Jonathan FH fell to the ground and hit a third time “because he thought he was going to grab his gun” as he tried to stand up. Police only found the pistol used by the accused, who stated that it was taken when one of the fatal victims was dragged out of the bar by his cousin and was already mortally wounded.

“My family comes first and I’m out of my mind”The confessional author of the events said he was “repentant” and wanted to apologize to his family, friends and “especially his daughter”, who was 6 years old when his father died.

In his statement, JMMC, The prosecution and private charges denied that they held the deceased’s cousin at gunpoint, as alleged.but after firing, he dropped the gun and went home to “say goodbye to my daughter and wife”. He admits that he changed but did not shower and surrendered to the police, whom he called an hour and a half later to plead guilty.

The defendants’ father and brother maintained a similar version in their statements before the magistrates.: the victims were not regular customers of the bar, making constant threats to the accused and their family and other people in the establishment, but did not notify the police for fear of “spoiling” Christmas day. “I know they’ve always been armed, and it’s understandable that we’re scared with their history,” the brother said.

Friends and unarmed

The version of the deceased’s cousin is completely different. FJSF states that they visited JM frequently each time they went out for a “party,” and that they had known the accused and his family “all their lives”, and it was the father of the latter who invited them to stop by. After Christmas Eve dinner. In fact, they had consumed narcotics together and bought “600 euros of cocaine” from the facility, they told the court. The deceased’s cousin assured that neither of them was armed and that the defendant opened fire on them while talking “calmly” with his brother and another client. “I thought the fires were rockets, I realized my cousin had fallen to the ground—I thought ‘out of drunkenness,’ and when I looked up I saw the gun and heard a clatter and a clatter a few times,” he said.

“The gun jammed,” he said. “I will kill you, I will kill you”, FJSF said the defendant yelled at him. “He didn’t shoot me because his father got in my way because he already had his gun ready.” He dragged his already dying cousin to the street as best he could and ran to seek shelter, which he found in a house, calling his mother and the police to report the situation. crime before the accused. “I don’t know how I got out of there. How would I know that my cousin had been shot three times if I didn’t go. Today (yesterday) I went to tell you here,” he said. The victim, who denies taking her cousin’s gun, said, “Because if I have a gun, I use it to defend myself.

“To this day I still wonder what happened every night‘, said FJSF, ‘neither feeling nor in pain’ since the events took place.

The trial of the JM crime continues this Tuesday.

7 and a half months in prison for hiding

At the trial of the crime in the JM bar, in addition to the confessional author of the facts, charged with a second charge of concealment and another threatHe faced between 1 and 5 years in prison. But before the trial began, the prosecution, special prosecutors and the defense had come to an agreement: the threat charges were dropped and a 7-and-a-half-month prison sentence was ordered for cover-up. In the same case where the consent sentence was imposed, the parties also agreed to suspend the execution of the sentence. The lawyer of the deceased’s family, Fernando Cumbres, explained that the defendant accepted the deal because he was “one of the people” who cleaned the crime scene, so his participation was not as important as the woman’s. who hid the pistol with which the murdered young man was shot, which by consent was already sentenced to a year in prison. “This will allow the case to focus on the accused killer,” he said.

On his behalf, the defendant’s attorney for the cover-up, Daniel ChippirrasHe pointed out that he reached this agreement for the benefit of his client, who has been experiencing a “great depression” since the events took place. “With his medical history, he couldn’t stand a 7-day trial” his lawyer was right. “It was the best option in this situation because what he needs right now is to get better.”