Zaragoza’s macho killer fell asleep at trial after using drugs in prison

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drug use in prison it is persecuted especially because it is seen as a security issue. Despite this, drug addiction in Spanish prisons is evident. Fifty prisoners who died of overdoses in Spain last year or were forced to suspend a case on Monday Zaragoza against macho killer. The dose was so high that it was probably heroin. Ruben Calvo WardrobeThe 32-year-old was able to consume what he fell asleep on the bench. A coroner considered his statement to be unenforceable and jury trial It had to be postponed to Tuesday.

From the moment he arrived at the District Court of Justice Zaragozathe accused was sleepyNational Police agents even helped get him out of the vehicle and transferred to the cells. When he entered the courtroom and sat on the bench, he had trouble standing upright in the chair, showing that he was out of shape, although he had announced when he would testify at 23 for stabbing his ex-partner Katia. May 2021 in the Zaragoza district of Las Fuentes. Esperanza de Pedro, head of the jury court, asked if she would like to give her own interpretation of the events, for which she faces 23 and a half years in prison, but she remained silent, in dismay. I was sleeping. Defense attorney Carmen Sánchez Herrero Minutes before criticizing that the system could prevent crime because he “has been a drug addict and mentally ill since the age of 14,” he approached her and woke her up. “Do you know who I am? I’m your lawyer…” he said, looking up and answering with a disinterested yes.

It is a situation that surprises those who were there and the judge himself who asked the court. Aragon Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Imlcfa) for an expert to publish a report on the feasibility of testifying by Rubén Calvo Ropero. The conclusion of coroner María Luisa Tomás was clear: “She is not aware of anything.” After examining the defendant, the expert said, “The drugs he was taking for his mental problems were not causing it, so he must have consumed some toxin.”

The defendant had difficulty sitting in the seat. ANDREEA VORNICU

Ruben Calvo Wardrobe assured that he was alienated before the investigating judge when he stabbed the victim and said he “doesn’t remember anything”. this the defendant’s mental state and drug addiction will mark the lines of defense Even the Ministry of Public Affairs considers that this case for sexist violence is a mitigating state of mental disorder due to a possible psychotic outbreak in the perpetrator. But it also asks various aggravating factors: gender, violation of the sentence and recidivism.

While the Prosecutor’s Office demands 23 years, the Aragon Government raises the demand to 26 as a popular movement. Compensation of 213,990 euros for the son and mother of the deceased should be added to this request. The night he killed her, he called Katia and begged her to come to his house, under the pretext that he was “not in good health.” She agreed and went to 31st Leopoldo Romeo Street and started an argument in which the man swung a knife at which he stabbed her. FThe intensity of aggression was so great that it came to break and bend the blades of the knives used.

The charges highlight that Katia could do nothing to defend herself against the attack of the accused. was alone at home and in a small room Surprised by the suspect’s fatal attack, he was unlikely to escape due to his small size.

The screams alerted a neighborhood calling 091. Despite all the requests of the police, the accused refused to open the door of the apartment and simply told them from the door: “Son of a bitch, it was your fault”. He then jumped out of the fifth floor window but did not kill himself. He’s in jail right now.

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