44 years old German citizen born in kazakhstan He accepted a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence this week for beating a 62-year-old Ukrainian citizen to death with a fire extinguisher in Torrevieja, in the presence of the victim’s 12-year-old son. The attacked man, who died in the hospital where he was taken twelve days after being beaten, did not know the accused. The accused had just arrived. Germany doing some breeding work in a home Flamenca beach in Orihuela Costaand it was his first visit to Spain. He was arrested for assault on his first night in Torrevieja and has been held in Fontcalent prison ever since.
Last Monday, the defendant was referred to the City of Justice in Elche to be tried by a popular jury, but was not formed. After the prosecution and prosecutor’s office, a compliance hearing was held. defense attorney, Aitor Esteban Gallastegui The Ministry of Public Affairs reaches an agreement reduced his first sentence to 7 and a half years in prisonwhich was added 26 years imprisonment for murder, trespassing and injury.
In the plea bargain with the prosecution, the charge of murder was changed to murder and presumed to combine extenuating circumstances of drunkenness and partial compensation for harm, 60.000 Euro already shipped with compensation related to 196,000 € It must be paid to the spouse and child of the victim.
The accused should be sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter and 18 months for trespassing, with a fine of 750 euros for the injuries inflicted on the victim’s son and another penalty of the same amount for the damages he inflicted. 644 euros for the medical expenses of helping the family cat that fell from the fifth floor during the incident.
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events occurred Early in the morning of 28 June 2021, around 00:20 a.m. Building on Torresal street in Torrevieja. Rustem K., who was born in Kazakhstan but has a German identity, had come to Torrevieja with a Ukrainian friend, who had come from Germany by road to make a small renovation in a house in Playa, in the afternoon of the previous day. flamenco He was to stay in Spain for four or five days and returned to Germany, where his family was. had “good social status”.
The two friends were drinking until the accused felt unwell and took a taxi home. His friend told the Civil Guard that he was so impressed that he had to take him to the third floor with the help of the taxi driver. While he was at home, he regained consciousness and started hitting his friend. “I felt alienated”He cited this witness who confirmed that he had badly injured him after attacking him. “superhuman strength” and left home.
Then he went up to the fifth floor with a fire extinguisher and started knocking on the door of a house whose tenant he did not know. As soon as the 62-year-old victim opens the door, the accused poured the fire extinguisher on the man’s face and immediately used hit him on the head with the intent to kill him. The incident was seen by the victim’s son. panicking under 12, After holding a knife to defend himself, he went out onto the terrace and called the police. 112 Emergencies.
The accused went to look for him and meanwhile caught the younger. He tried to take the knife from her hand. The boy also received a blow to the head, and after dropping the knife, he ran into the street. He met someone there Civil Guard patrol responding to and assisting the warning call. Officers entered the house and saw the defendant using a kitchen knife and kicking the victim’s body to the ground. Seeing the Civil Guards, he dropped the knife and was arrested.
The man who was attacked was hospitalized with severe head trauma and died on 10 July as a result of the beating he received. His son was treated for polycontusion and family cat He had to undergo surgery after falling from five floors.