“He is my fellow countryman, how do I get his cell phone”. An Algerian citizen, who was tried together with another defendant of Moroccan origin yesterday, was justified with these words, accusing him of stabbing an Algerian person on the Levante beach in Benidorm after his mobile phone rang. The two defendants denied both the robbery and the stabbing, but the victim confirmed their charges against both, and the Prosecution asked the Court to punish them. nine years and nine months in prison Two charges of violent robbery and attempted murder.
In addition, the prosecutor compensate the victim with 19.480 euros for the damage and its consequences. The defenses sought acquittal of the injury charge or, alternatively, conviction.
with two defendants in pre-trial detention After being arrested at dawn on May 21, 2022, they not only defended their innocence but also accused the victim of assaulting them earlier. Thus, the Algerian accused He denied stealing his cell phone. to his compatriot Lounging in a hammock on the Levante beach shortly after one in the morning. According to his own account, the victim approached him with an iron bar and, after being beaten, started running to escape.
His friend tried to defend him, and then the victim’s friends, who worked as porters or waiters in their city business, showed up with a scooter. Benidorm’s “foreign territory” and they helped him to attack his friend. He stated that both he and the other defendant were drunk and that it was he who stopped the Police to ask for help, which was denied by the agents at the hearing and stated that the opposite was the case.
drug problems
The other defendant also denied the robbery and stated that the victim and his friend were having problems due to the drug problem. That the duo got into an argument and intervened to separate them, meanwhile. “My friend started running” but “didn’t try to take the cell phone from him.”
The victim called friends who had come with someone. baseball batWhen they arrived at the scene, “they started hitting us,” said the accused. This defendant stated that he avoided being hit on the head with a stick and that he did not know how the complainant was injured with a knife.
The version given by the victim during the trial is not at all similar to what the defendants told. Thus, he confirmed that he was lying in a hammock on the Levante beach at dawn. talking to her motherLiving in Algeria, he was arrested after one of the defendants suddenly took his mobile phone from his chest while talking with headphones.
The man reacted to take his cell phone and got into the car. quarrel with the material author of the robbery, shot and stabbed before pulling a knife. According to the victim, the other defendant also stabbed her and received multiple stab wounds to her stomach, arm, forehead and neck.
After the stabbing, the victim told the court: the attackers fled and he followed her despite the wounds he received.
National Police received a call 091’s room Warning of a fight between men in the Rincón de Loix area and the first patrol to arrive bloody man in the middle of the road He said he asked for help and pointed at the perpetrators leaving.
Police officers confirmed at the hearing that the two suspects left quickly and initially ignored the stop warnings.
This bladed weapons not found at the scene of the stabbing, according to officers. At the hearing, the coroner noted that the stab wounds were not stabbing and did not affect the victim’s vital organs.