“I love him and he loves me too”. This is how a man finished his statement yesterday with a restraining order The prosecutor’s office, who was accused of trying to kill his partner by burning his house in Alicante last year, demanded that the prosecutor’s office be sentenced to up to one and a half times the total for these facts. 25 years in prison. The victim partially withdrew her initial charges and withdrew from private prosecution at this Wednesday’s hearing in the First Division of the Alicante Court, but her sister and brother-in-law confirmed the accused’s threats the day before the fire: “I will burn you alive; I’ll burn the house down while you’re there.”
according to the accusation against Investigationdefendant and victim maintained a relationship for two years and despite the existence of an agreed suspension order in a settlement judgment A Criminal Court and an injunction of the San Vicente del Raspeig Investigation Court were living together in Alicante at the end of June 2022, when the events occurred. On June 21 last year, the accused punched the woman in the face and broke his maxillary sinus, among other injuries, according to the prosecutor. In yesterday’s hearing, the defendant claimed: hit him with his elbow “accidentally” While trying to take her home at a bar, the woman also stated that she poked her with her finger while they were arguing.
A week later, on June 29, he threatened to burn her alive and the next day her cell phone was stolen. The accused and the man tried to break in that same night. Unsuccessfully, he inserted the pressed paper through the door lock and set it on fire. He also threw a burning object out of the dining room window and the sofa caught fire.
HE The fire spread to various rooms The victim, who had to take shelter from the house and the lighted well with his two dogs, was rescued by the firefighters.
Danger
According to the Public Ministry, the fire posed a “hazard for upper-floor occupants exposed to heat, smoke and gases.”
For all these reasons, the prosecution demands prison sentences of up to 25 years. two offenses of violation, one offense of injury, the other offense of threat, offense of petty theft and offense of arson competing with offense of attempted murder.
The accused denied that he had set the fire and stated that he did not threaten to set fire to his partner while he was inside. He admitted that he had violated the restraining order by living with his partner, and hinted that some people with small debts may have caused the fire. money for drugs they sold you
The victim, who partially retracted her initial accusations, gave the following assurance: “I’m not afraid” and pointed to I was so angry” When she testified before the police and said that he threatened to burn her alive, she later confirmed this version in court and does not remember it today.
The victim’s sister and husband confirmed at the hearing that they were present when the accused told the victim that he would burn the house while he was inside. The nurse also said that on the day of the events, a firefighter called her on her cell phone. He burned my house. His brother-in-law stated that the accused called him the morning of the fire and said: “It made a huge mess” and to take him to Elche.
A PAPER BURNED WITH THE DNA OF THE PROCESSED AT THE DOOR
One of the evidence the prosecution used in the trial to support the accusation was a partially burned piece of paper that National Police found in a hole in one of the two locks on the door of the victim’s home. In the article in question, the Science Police found the defendant’s DNA and claimed that it was normal and that he had put it in to plug the hole, but one of the investigators declared that it was inserted from the outside and they set it on fire. , but because he pressed too much, he ran out of oxygen and the fire went out. The prosecutor of the case stated in his report that the victim would have died if he did not have an inner courtyard to take shelter.