Abdullatif A. He sits on the bench of the Murcia County Court this Monday for shoot his wife Salwa at their home in Águilas in summer 2020after you have sent his children to the beach. This is who just got out of jail for drug smuggler faces jail time for committing crime 25 years in prison for murder and another year for possession of illegal weapons. Behind jury selectionstarted in Fourth floor of the Palace of Justice Oral hearing from Murcia, where the person declared that that day his wife kicked him out of the house and insulted his mother by saying, “He called her a whore”.
The two children found their mother’s body when they returned from the beach.
Ministry of Public Administration, controlling and jealousi had A premeditated plan to kill Salwa. Wanting to leave, she would later tell her eldest daughter, a 16-year-old teenager when she was orphaned. “It’s always been sexist“her daughter talked about her father, and that machismo increased after she got out of jail three months before the murder.
“My wife accused me of bringing women into our house in Morocco”
On the day the crime was committed, “the accused left the house for a while and went down to the basement of the building, where he took a long firearm such as a rifle or shotgun The prosecutor’s office elaborates that he deposited it days ago, despite not having a possession permit.
killed him on the couch: pointed the gun a very short distance from his wife’s chest, paste in the heart areaY close range shotresulted in Salwa’s death. two minors they found his mother’s body on the way back from the beach where he sent them Abdullatif. He escaped, but was soon found (hiding in a boat) and sent to a makeshift prison by the Lorca Investigation Court. Until this Monday.
“She decided it was either for herself or for no one”
The lawyer for the special prosecutor’s office stated that the man had a plan to leave Spain and that he would not have been prosecuted because “if the citizen had not come for co-operation”, perhaps he would have managed to escape. “It has a complex function: restoring peace to a family devastated by the father. she decides it’s either for her or not for anyone“I wish you justice for women, men and especially the two children left without a mother,” she said.
“I’m trying to empathize”
German Perez, his lawyer Abdullatifadmitted that “the previous lawyer wanted to claim it was an accident, but it wasn’t.” The rifle was not accidentally fired. “But no one said other circumstances that might favor the accused, and nothing was said. It’s a patient that matters. Pérez asked, “Would someone who is not sick commit such a heinous crime?”
“He constantly received messages that his wife was cheating on him”
Also, the issue had just come out of a “long deprivation of freedom” that “upsets anyone”. And “he was unemployed, addicted” narcotictogether beerand was under the influence of these substances at the time of the events”.
“I never justify violence, I never will, but I try to empathize and put myself in the shoes of a person deprived of his liberty who constantly receives messages that his wife is unfaithful. I would do the same. He doesn’t put an end to anyone’s life, but he tries to confirm it,” said the lawyer, “In the middle of an argument, body temperature rises, very severe extremes are reached, and it comes to such a state. vision and understanding are blurred“.
He wanted to “see not only what was against this gentleman, but also what was in his favour.”
Salwa’s second macho murder of 2020 In the region, after his death in Cartagena Rosalia, whom her husband beat to death. “I went a little out of my mind,” this person said at his trial.
statement of the accused
accompanied by a translator, Abdullatif He got the word. According to that, his wife never told him to leave. When asked if he had ever hit his wife, he assured that it would never happen. He also denied the arguments that neighbors and his own daughter talked about.
To him, being in jail, serving a sentence for drug trafficking, was when everything changed. “While in prison, my wife accused me of bringing women to our house in Morocco. I said it was a lie. From then on he treated me regularly.”
The shotgun he used belonged to a person named Román, “I knew him because he had been working with him for 14 years. In the basement was a shotgun belonging to Román and a pistol belonging to his brother.. It was full,” he repeated. “When we got out of prison in 2020, the two of us hid the shotgun and the pistol with a tie,” he repeated.
When asked the day the crime was committed, he said he didn’t send the kids to the beach, he didn’t even know they were actually going. alone with his wife they quarreled “because he started telling me to get out of the house”.
“He started insulting me, suddenly he threw the table at me, he threw it at me. When he hit me with the table, he hurled insults, said bad words, Insulting my mother by saying she is a prostitute and my sisters are prostitutes. I was already blind. He knew where Roman kept his shotgun. I went down to the basement, went upstairs and shot him.. I couldn’t say a word to him, I shot him, he was blind.”
“Then I started wondering what I was doing. I was dizzy, got into the car, Golf and drove to a Police area, I called Román and told him I was making a problem”, stunned. .
His friend came with more people, “they took me to their cottage, they brought me a piece of pizza, Bezoya juice and a pack of Marlboro, they said I should stay there.” From there, to the “broken ships”, where Roman “who promised to help me” took him. “She went out for about a minute and called the police because she was scared”.