Badoo gang sentenced to 12 more years in prison for kidnapping and assaulting a Tudela businessman

Both defendants had previously been sentenced to a total of 46 years in prison for murdering a computer scientist from Guecho and brutally robbing a truck driver from La Almunia. Both withdrew to their hideout in Luceni, being convinced that they were connecting with Hedangeline via social media. hoping to have a nightmarish sexual encounter.

In the case now settled, the First Division of the Zaragoza Court proved that the victim had stayed with the woman at the Luceni train station. The victim who was not expected to fall there a trapit was hit from behind with wrench by the accused. He tried to escape, but fell on an embankment and was captured by his followers. there fHe was threatened by the woman with a stun gun, threatening “Shut up or I’ll kill you”.

tied and gagged a trunk

Next, the defendants gagged and handcuffed their victims and put him in the trunk of a Mercedes and took him to a warehouse where they took his valuables and the money he was carrying, about 650 euros and his debit card, He wants his secret number at gunpoint.

Then, after navigating the trunk of the car once more, the defendants, They confirmed that the kidnapped person had no money in their account, and demanded that they provide their relatives’ phone numbers to demand ransom. When Julian said his family had no money, the woman threatened him: “If you don’t have money, we’ll kill you, you son of a bitch.”

Finally, After the robbery was committed, they left him with his mouth open and covered with a hood, but released on the country road because he had no ties on his feet. A farmer who was passing by at night with his tractor helped him.

The court decided that the defendants were responsible for theft by dangerous means, assault, wrongful arrest and attempted extortion. The 12 years and nine months applied add to the 46 already accumulated by these two members of the group.

procedural bad faith

The court rejects Achraf’s request for a change of defense attorney at the beginning of the hearing on legal grounds, considering it “strategy” and “procedural bad faith”.

He also argues that in the oral proceedings it serves to prove the perpetrators of the crimes charged to the defendants with valid evidence that removes the presumption of innocence.

For this, the court self-incriminating statement of the accused He is at the head of the oral hearing, which also blames Hedangeline for the events. That said, for his part, Achraf, a version the judges excluded, always acted under serious threats.

However, the greatest incriminating evidence is not that of the accused romantically involved, but that of the victim, whose version “has all the legally necessary truth requirements.”

In fact, Julian stated in his statement: Claiming to be the “slave” of the defendants, the woman always acted “directly, distinctly and effectively”.so much that when he tried to escape, he pointed a real-looking gun at him and kicked him in the back.

A ruthless method to achieve their goals

Likewise, the chamber verifies the statements of agencies and investigators. Civil Guard and doctors’ reports.

Actually, An expert from Benemérita emphasized at the trial that the way of working was the same in all cases. They lured victims through the Badoo social network and made them believe they were about to start an intimate relationship through Candy, who pretended to be a hook.

Also, these meetings always took place in towns and all of them in the province of Zaragoza. The victim was beaten, bound, and gagged before being brutally beaten for giving away the passwords to the bank cards. He was taken from place to place in search of ATMs, awkwardly tucked into the trunk of a car, with no concern for his safety and well-being.

After this goal was achieved, they “released their victims near the place of abduction”.Computer scientist killed and buried alive from Getxo in a grave they dug in a field with fields Pedrola.