On the ground, face down and with his hands chained behind his back, Pablo could do nothing to defend himself. The situation would not improve either: It was two civilian guards who cornered him and beat him for 10 minutes. Her at a gas station car wash. The other three members of Benemérita who were present did not participate in the beating, but did not refrain from it either. What they actually did, what justice thought was proven, was to help the other two falsify the report so that it wouldn’t be known what happened. This Monday, the Regional Court of Madrid sentenced five people to prison terms of between one year and nine months and three years and nine months, but none of them will go to prison.
Apparently, the two people responsible for the attack, who were also brothers, approached the other three defendants with serious expressions and without approaching them. None of the five will go to jailAccording to the defenses, two brothers will be expelled from the Civil Guard, while the others will be disqualified for one year for each of the crimes recognized and charged, that is, two years. As a mitigating factor, They paid the compensation of 6 thousand euros in advance, which they had to pay together..
The two brothers agreed Three years and nine months in prison for illegal detention, crimes against moral integrity and falsification of official documents. For your part, Three people who helped distort what happened in the report accepted a prison sentence of one year and nine months only for the last two.
However, the Madrid Regional Prosecutor’s Office requested prison sentences of between four and a half and ten years for them.. According to the story told by the prosecutor, after December 1, 2019, two youths in an intoxicated state were reported for disturbance on public roads by two members of the Majadahonda Local Police. “Special [estaban molestando] He attacks passing vehicles, stops them and hits them with a glass bottle, scolds and insults drivers and other pedestrians.”
Convicted civil guards arrived on the scene, but local agents warned them: identified persons were “changed” He stated that they left the scene after the fine was given. However, the civil guards, “without fully knowing the reasons”, decided to go to a nearby gas station where the victim was found, who was taken to the outside area of the gas station’s laundry room.
Even though he was cornered and talking to Civil Guard agents, “Suddenly, surprisingly and arbitrarily, without mediating any prior aggressive behavior on the part of PJML”, PJML began to be beatenHis fists were “repeatedly and unnecessarily” clenched by the accused civil guards, brothers MASE and LMSE, who knocked him down. They continued the blows even though he remained motionless after the ground fell.
“He wasn’t moving. They kept kicking him and he was covered in blood.. When I picked up the phone to call my daughter and tell her what was going on, one of them approached me to confiscate the phone in case she was recording,” one witness explained as he left the Provincial Court: “Nobody did it. I helped him with anything that could stop me, but everything was recorded on the gas station cameras.
The version confirmed by the prosecutor’s office in its statement of events: “During the attack, never disclosed against agents“Assuming, without any defence, the physical pain he was subjected to,” the prosecutor’s report continues, noting that the young man did not react to the attack “either before or after being beaten”. He stood in the cold and wet from the rain for about ten minutes, with his hands behind his back. “He was handcuffed and his entire body was kept face down.” Pablo’s friend, on the other hand, was administratively charged for disobedience to law enforcement officers.
Passivity and falsification of the report
According to the prosecution, the other three defendants at the scene, DMJ, ASC and FJNB, did not fulfill their duties, which were “natural” to their situation. Because they did not show any disagreement, even though they observed the violent behavior of other colleagues and “all had the possibility of intervening.” They did not even intervene to prevent PJML from continuing to receive blows even when he was handcuffed “unnecessarily”, “with his hands behind his back, face down, in the cold, with the ground wet from the rain”.
The beaten victim was then placed in the officers’ vehicle and taken to the police station; Here, according to the arrest and information procedures, MASE and LMSE brothers continued to arrest “knowing that there was no legal basis”. PJML, who was taken to the police station after his first examination after being detained, was taken to a doctor for the second time due to the wound in his mouth, and returned to the police station and remained in the cells throughout his detention. December 1, 2019.
The five defendants “to vindicate themselves and absolve each of them of responsibility for their previous actions.” They prepared a report signed by themselves as the proxy force, in which they described “some facts beyond reality”.. The report in question was submitted to the Majadahonda Instruction Court No. 3, which initiated Preliminary Case No. 720/2019 against PJML for the crime of assault on December 2, 2019, and a decision on conditional release was given by the Decision dated December 2, 2019. .