It was known as one of the urban tribes that reigned in the 2000s. shaved heads followers of Nazi ideology terrorized the streets of many Spanish cities, including Zaragosafor attacks against persons belonging to vulnerable groups, such as the homeless. in the Aragonese capital that year Julio Jesús Millán was kicked to death while sleeping in a garage on the Camino de las Torres. Whoever killed him was wearing boots and said they were a few. skins the perpetrators were in reality “a normal human being who committed a brutal crime”. This is how forensics and police described the young man Aitor Galindo sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Julio Jesús Millán was from Ateca, although he had lived in Zaragoza for many years. It was common to see him in the area where he was found dead, where many neighbors knew and especially loved him. He always had his head down, shabby clothes and a backpack on his back. Few knew that Studied Law at the University of Zaragoza in the introduction of important names as Fernando Álvarez Miranda, then former Speaker of Parliament; Pedro Baringo, ex-president of the DPZ; Rafael Oliete, former head of the second chamber of the Zaragoza Court; Supreme Court justices Julián Serrano Puértolas and José Ignacio Giménez Fernández or criminal lawyer José Antonio Ruiz Galbe and others.
Suddenly He decided to choose the bohemian lifestyle and was content with the disability pension his family received for him.. He never asked for alms, nor was he seen while drinking. The turmoil in the neighborhood that caused his death was such that the then A.Zaragoza Town Hall He appeared as an accusation in the case, led by the popular José Atarés.
At the age of 78, he found death at the entrance of the Camino de las Torres parking lot 36-38, where he slept every night. His body was found by the Zaragoza Local Police in a large pool of blood. According to the autopsy, Jesús Millán He had very serious craniofacial injuries with multiple traumas causing brain hemorrhage. Also, his nose was crushed.caused the man to suffocate to death by swallowing his own blood. He had no chance to defend himself. When it was 05:30 it was 05:30. A taxi driver raised the alarm.
But the killer partying with his friends and drinking so much gave four times more alcohol than he was allowed to drive, he had not gone very far. Aitor Galindo, in his twenties, was around in his bloody trousers and boots. No doubt he was the prime suspect, and even more so. It wasn’t the first time the Local Police had seen him with the victim that same night.
In front of local agents, he assured that he had informed the Local Police and that it was some skinheads who persistently hit the homeless man on the head and fled before the Local Police arrived.
Half an hour earlier, room 092 had received a phone call alerting them to the presence of someone who might be ill on the Camino de las Torres. In this first response, local agents found Millán with scratches and minor injuries to his face and wanted to transport him to the hospital, but he refused. He said he was fine and didn’t want to go to the police station to file a complaint. However, the authorities noticed a young man in the vicinity. It turned out to be Aitor Galindo.
Before local agents He made sure to call the local police and that “it was some skinheads who persistently hit the homeless man on the head.” and they fled before the local police arrived.” He even went so far as to say that the bloodstains on the boots were the cause. bent over to help the old man. Curiously, pain in his right wrist and knee required his transfer to the Clínico Lozano Blesa hospital in Zaragoza. Despite his version, indications were that he was temporarily incarcerated.
He was imprisoned for two years and was tried by a people’s court at the Zaragoza State Court on January 31. Before the jury, Galindo assured that he had been subjected to “a kind of psychological torture to make him confess to me the author of the facts.” “I just wanted to help the victim and found myself charged with a murder charge,” he said.There was no reason for me to hate the beggar or kill him.”
But the evidence said otherwise. Aragon Police Station Homicide agents assured that they found only Galindo’s footprints near the body, that no one had seen the skinheads in the area, and that his testimony was full of inconsistencies and contradictions. The young man’s family said Aitor Galindo “never used violence”. ” happened a normal boy like any young man with friends and worries, but it didn’t cause any problems at home”.
Galindo assured him that he had been subjected to “a kind of psychological torture to make him confess to me the author of the events.” “I just wanted to help the victim and found myself on a murder charge,” he said.
The trial had several sessions, and one of them tried to find out why he was able to do it. Psychologists and forensic experts”You don’t have to be mentally ill to commit a serious attack like murder.. They stressed that Galindo meets the profile of a young man today. The son of separated parents, who maintains cordial relationships and tends to support him. He also did not have a police or police record and his “evasive demeanor and little emotional reaction to the serious facts of which she is accused, neither crying nor nervous, but it can be a defense mechanism”. “It presents an appropriate, adequate and correct image, perhaps an effort to show it better than it is,” said the experts.
This normality was the main asset of the late Javier Notivoli, the late defense attorney, but for prosecutor Carmelo Quintana, it all amounted to a lie. Therefore, he came to demand 25 years in prison. He was eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison. Several appeals were made, but eventually the Supreme Court upheld the sentence.