Author of the fatal shot to a farmer in Badajoz: “I stumbled and the bullet escaped”

Apart from that, for this reason, They are charged with murder, illegal detention, violent robbery and intimidation in a residential home. use of weapons, theft of a vehicle and physical and mental injuries to two othersAJMM (former farm worker) and JMRG The Prosecutor’s Office is seeking 28 years in prison for them, the special prosecutor’s office led by Miguel Ángel Cristo raising it almost 39 years in prison.

After facing the prosecutor’s thesis and the specific charge that three men had threatened, beaten and tied up the fatal victim and his wife with shotguns to steal money (more than 40,000 euros in cash and other valuables), The three defendants insisted that they went to steal the pig, and that events sped up after he was once surprised by the owner who “attacked” one of the pigs.

They assured that it was just the two of them.DGM and JMRG, they entered the house, the third remained outside and only the woman’s screams and gunfire were heard. The author of the footage explained that it was JMR G who forced her to shoot the owner of the farm while taking her husband to some warehouses, confirming: I thought the rifle was empty.. According to the testimony of the perpetrator who was shot, they were both in the living room with the couple, after his partner had told him this. “He was going to cut off his wife’s fingers”», the man threatened to attack the JMR G and at this point tripped over a table and accidentally fired. “My finger wasn’t on the trigger, but it slipped and I fired”DGM, who said he thought he hit the roof until he saw the farmer fall to the ground and became aware of gravity, said.

In his statement, he said that he neither hit nor tied the couple, and even went further and said to her when he was alone with the woman: “To me they were like my grandparents and nothing was going to happen to them”

They escaped in a vehicle belonging to the deceased and took the weapons. DGM assured that he and AJMM wanted to surrender, but JMRG He was shown as the ‘ringleader’ and threatened. “He put 3,000 euros in my pocket and told me to shut up, the money was needed in my house.”

In addition, people who were the couples of the main defendants at that time are also on trial. three womenabout the prosecution demanded 15 and 8 years imprisonment, which was reduced to 30 and 24 months yesterday, on the grounds that they were accomplices.

Widow’s Testimony

“You don’t know what it’s like to live a horror movie starring you”. It is one of the statements in which the widow of the farmer of Badajoz, who was shot dead at Feria farm yesterday, summarizes his feelings on the night of May 10, 2020. prosecution and private prosecution) is far from what was suggested by the defendants.

woman declaring by video conferencing reported that he had left a room in the same building to avoid visual contact with the defendants. The person who admitted to being shot knocked on the door of his house by pretending that his car was malfunctioning to ask for help. minutes later, her husband was fired Realizing that this was a robbery, she shouted at him to get a shotgun, but the woman didn’t have time to go out with the gun.. The other two men, hoodedThey broke into her house and took her away. Also, he said, a second shotgun found in the house was seized.

The two men, with their faces covered, took her husband in handcuffs to some of the farm’s warehouses, and the faceless one kept an eye on him, forcing him to search the drawers of several rooms to “pump” money. it almost hits my body”. When the two men returned home with their husbands, they continued to search for money and found wads of banknotes in various places, but wanted more. The widow claimed They did not hesitate to threaten death and insult, and even said that they would “torture” themselves.. “They’re constantly pointing their rifles at us and their fingers on the trigger”said the widow, who sobbed more than once during the deposition.

While the three gunmen were in the living room with the couple, one of them said, Shot her husband from less than a meter away. “He couldn’t trip over any table as there was nothing behind him”according to his words, the widow assured, strapped on the body of her husband, who died almost instantly. He doesn’t know how long it took to recover and call 911 for help. If you know you were “broken” that night. “My husband was killed and I was buried alive. My children and I will no longer be the same.