“He killed me, he shot me… I’m dead.” These were Alicia’s last words before she died. It’s early morning on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2021. His daughter took him in her arms on the street. Next to them was a neighbor who was alarmed by what appeared to be an argument. When he saw the woman lying on the ground, he ran to help her. 52-year-old Portuguese-born Alicia struggled with death in her nightgown and with a bullet wound: “Hold on, mom, you won’t die.”
He died minutes later. He did this at the door of his home on West Street in Majadahonda, a residential neighborhood of chalets. Her husband, JAFD, a scrap metal dealer by profession, remained inside the house. Locked up as described, “semi-conscious” and occasionally switched, agents from the Civil Guard’s Citizen Security Division (USECIC) had to remove him from there.
He is charged with four crimes: murder, attempted murder, threats and illegal possession of weapons, In the popular jury trial that has been going on since November 6 in the 27th Department of the Madrid Court. At the first stage, the first witnesses have already been heard. Also to him. The special prosecutor’s office, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Community of Madrid are of the opinion that it has been proven that on February 14, the scrap metal dealer shot and killed his wife and tried to do the same with his daughter. He had threatened his wife with the same gun in the previous weeks. The prosecutor wants a 40-year prison sentence for him.
Violence and terror
February 13, 2021. Alicia, who had eye surgery the other day, is visited by all her children in the chalet. They have five children, but only two of them are alive by marriage. They all ate together, as the afternoon progressed and tensions increased. “My father was nervous, very upset,” four of the couple’s five children said at the first stage of the hearing. As soon as we finished our meal the insults came.Threats: “This will end, it will end here.”
Everyone says there is another threat. For years, the words “fear”, “violence” and “terror” have dominated the house. Alicia calmed them down.: “Since I just had surgery, it won’t help me at all.” They start leaving home at 18.30. Everyone is leaving except A. (who prefers not to publish his name). He is a direct witness to his mother’s death and a victim of the events of that fateful Valentine’s Day night.
a knife
A. testified behind closed doors at the second hearing. His testimony was heartbreaking, Prensa Ibérica’s events and investigation portal CASO ABIERTO has learned. He described the scene. He explained that his father tried to start an argument that his mother did not want.. How he shot his mother and the fight scene he was involved in.
According to the media, on the day of the events, agents of the Madrid Civil Guard Homicide Group said that their daughter A., who became aware of the argument, He broke the deadbolt of the bedroom door, tried to help his mother, and fought with his father.. Once inside, he found them “struggling on the bed.” The young woman ran towards her father, who had one arm extended under her mother. She told him to get off and that she would “let him go.” I didn’t. Pull.
According to the prosecution, the defendant shot his wife. Mother and daughter tried to take the gun from his hand, but the gun fell to the ground. While the injured Alicia went to the kitchen to get a knife, the defendant said:He tried to strangle his daughter with both hands, hit her head against the wall several times, smashed her left hand with a knife, and shot her in the left thigh with the same weapon.Mother and daughter managed to escape by wounding the suspect. They ran out of the house. Soon Alicia would die in the street.
“I’d leave it dry if I wanted to.”
Alicia died and A. went into shock. The 62-year-old man was locked in his chalet. The young woman was treated in the hospital. The graphic documentation of his injuries obtained by OPEN CASE leaves little doubt about the attack. His father was out of danger but was to be taken to Madrid’s Puerta de Hierro Hospital in serious condition. There were two gunshot wounds and seven stab wounds. It was rumored that he injured himself after killing his wife and attempted suicide, she says no. He was discharged twenty days later and entered temporary prison.
He was accused of murder and declared himself the victim. He stated that “while he was in bed, he asked Alicia when she was going to get her son off drugs.” He stated that he took the gun from the warehouse.I loquee And I shot at the wall to scare himHe stated that his daughter and his wife took the gun from him, and that while he was lying on the ground, his wife “stood up and shot herself.”
“If I wanted to kill him I would have left him high and dry.” Agents asked him about the vaccines the two had received. He just said, “Let them show me.” JAFD he explained in court last week. He only answered his lawyer’s questions. He denied the facts once again.
A life full of violence
“Sent.” Everyone claims that Alicia cannot even be with her children and that she cannot enjoy her 7 grandchildren with peace of mind. “Whore”, “slut”, “I’ll kill you”. The relationship described by their children is marked by horror. So much so that five years ago Alicia – now murdered – After breaking off their relations, he went to his hometown Portugal with all of them.. They say he returned “under threat” before the judge and the popular jury. “It’s a good thing you came back because I had enough ammunition to kill you all,” they said.
“Every time we went to Portugal, when we arrived, the requirement was to stand in the mountains, tie up my mother, beat her and watch it from the car.”
Fear, threat, terror. Everything heard in the courtroom shatters the testimony of one of his oldest daughters. “He was around 12 years old… After beating my mother, he went to the minibus and took the gun. He pointed it at my head. The gun went off accidentally and hit him in the head.”
They say they grew up under constant threat and never reported it out of fear. “Every time we go on holiday to Portugal, it’s the same situation when we arrive,” pauses one of her daughters.He was standing on the mountain, tying my mother up and beating her, and we would watch from the car.“He cries during his testimony.
They talk about unhealthy jealousy, obsession. “We couldn’t show any affection with my mother.” The situation was even worse with the only child. “He was a man.” Since his father claimed that the quarrel was caused by tuberculosis, the young man swore: “I’ve never used drugs. “Smoking, drinking coffee or watching television were drugs for him.”
“I was going to bed and I heard voices,” said a neighbor who tried to help Alicia before she died. “He was lying on the ground. I saw that he was our neighbor and went out. I bandaged his wound upon the request of the emergency service.” Alicia repeated that she was going to die and that she shot him. “When the Civil Guard arrived, they set up a security perimeter.” He was still inside the house. “Drop the gun, let’s go in.” Representatives announced that they were negotiating to gain access by phone. “The special unit came and took him out,” the neighbor said. “I felt like he was unconscious, but I don’t know.”
JAFD claims he took the gun out of fear of being robbed at his home. “This is a quiet area,” this neighbor concludes when asked by the prosecutor. He bought it on the black market. It is palm sized and the serial number has been removed. His children assure him that he always has it. They grew up seeing the gun in their hands. “He used that against us to scare us.”
The trial continues. Criminalistics, forensics, agents, experts and members of the Citizens Security Unit (USECIC) will testify this week to unveil expert evidence against the scrap dealer. Their children, who are waiting for the sentence, broken and speechless, go to the Provincial Court at every session.