Code of silence among youth gangs: Three boys, whose victims did not want to reveal how they knew them, were acquitted of attempted murder

The victim attributed the attack to the Trinitarios and said they tried to kill themselves six months ago but the Civil Guard managed to prevent the attack. He later changed his version and denied it.

The person who identified the attackers on the day of the incidents and who was attacked with a gun was the victim himself. trinity groupHas been fighting a rival gang for control of that part of Valdemoro since 2015 Dominican Not Playing (DDP). Just six months ago, on May 16, 2021, one of the attackers, known as the youngest of the attackers, ‘Drago’and two other Trinidadians had tried to kill him and a friend at the door of a bar in Valdemoro after being identified as DDP members: “What are you doing here? This is our territory”, they threatened them. Luckily, the Civil Guard patrol that inspected the area stopped this incident.

“This is mamahuevo”

Investigators believe this initial argument was the “seed” of the attack on the young man at Valdemoro Renfe station six months later. That night, the victim was about to work the night shift as a waiter at a store when three teenage boys surprised her at 10:19 p.m. someone riding a black scooter. Then one of them shouted to the others in a Dominican accent: “That’s it, that’s mamahuevo, come on, catch it, go ahead”He pointed to the victim, who turned around and hit the machete-wielding scooter rider.

Images of minors recorded by security cameras at Valdemoro Renfe station. OPEN STATE

Without saying a word, he began to stab him all over his body, while the other two gang members clapped and kicked the young man: “Kill him, kill him, stop this!”. Almost all of the stab wounds of the victim, who escaped after being chased by the attackers, hit his back. When they caught up with him, someone else tried to catch him. “machete” to your faceso the boy protected his face with his right hand, which made him amputation of several phalanges.

Several eyewitnesses saw how three attackers quickly escaped while a neighbor was training. a tourniquet on the leg To the victim who saved his life. According to the statements of eyewitnesses and the victim, the Civil Guard managed to identify three young people, two 17-year-olds and one 15-year-old, as the perpetrators of the attack. Old acquaintances of the Civil Guard because they are “sworn members of the Trinitarios gang” despite their young age. They have a history Violent robbery, stabbing, resisting authority and damaging vehicles.

Valdemoro Division

In particular, these belong to: The “basic scale” of the Valdemoro block or section and I regularly attend meetings with leading members of the group According to his research, he is in that area. Madrid Command Information Service agents next to Renfe station months before the attack They both watched and photographed and the three minors accused during meetings with other Trinidadian members and leaders near a nightclub in Valdemoro. next to a school From Getafe. From these meetings, the Civil Guard highlights the defendant’s “close relationship” with two adult men nicknamed. ‘Panther’ And ‘kokola’. According to the report, these two responsible junior division managers of the Trinitarians in Valdemoro.

The investigation by the Civil Guard managed to prove that the person who attacked the 18-year-old teenager in Valdemoro was ‘Drago’, the youngest of the three gang members. carried the machete To Valdemoro and to whom led the attack. Agents managed to find them near the Valdemoro train station just before and after the attack. Your mobile phones and transportation cards, confirmed that Drago and the other minors had left Ciempozuelos for a nearby location that afternoon. The third person involved lives in Valdemoro.

station security cameras Just minutes after the attack, they recorded the leader of the group and his friend entering the station through the security turnstiles, pretending not to know each other, but neither they pass the check togetherJust using someone’s transportation card. Security guards intercepted the third man on one of the platforms, but the young man managed to escape through a restricted passage.

Blood on the scooter

After their arrest, none of the minors admitted the facts, but one of them accused the other two in his statement. That night, he said, he met Drago at Valdemoro station to return together to Ciempozuelos and saw him carrying something with him. blood stained scooter in the area where the feet are placed. Drago recognized him then “They stabbed a random person”, added. Later the young man changed his version and denied everything.

The victim, who had incurable wounds on one hand, changed his story four times. Judge regrets his “indifference and disinterest” in cooperating with investigation

The victim also changed her story of events up to four times over the months the investigation continued. Seven months after the attack and after recognizing three Trinidadian boys responsible for a lineup, he offered the following assurance: It was not three children who attacked him, but four.. Moreover, he gives a number of confusing data about this supposed fourth author: He first states that this young man stood aside while the rest of the group hacked him with machetes, but in a later statement he claims that he kicked him. Later, he changes his statement again and explains that five people attacked him, not four, and gives the following information: a new physical definition Some of these do not match those of detained minors.

With a machete and some DDPs

The judge of Madrid’s 5th Juvenile Court, who presided over the case, attributes these “hesitations” in the statement of the young man who was attacked to his reluctance to recognize his possible relationship with gangs. National Police arrested himwhen I try to hide a “big” machete On September 26, 2021 After trying to kill a young Trinidadian along with other DDP in berlin park Madrid: “his constant rejection and reluctance Explaining where a possible prior knowledge about Drago (the only person he calls by his nickname) could come from and also denying that he has had previous incidents due to his past Possible, albeit indirect, relationship with groupsIt prevents us from concluding whether the victim was chosen at random, as the prosecution claims, or whether the attack was part of the activities of rival criminal organizations. He himself implied this in his first statement to the police“.

In light of the change of testimony and various evidence presented by the lawyer of one of the defendants, criminal lawyer José CabrejasJudge decided to acquit three young children Following the hearing last September. “It has not been proven that the minors participated in the attack and that it was a result of the injuries described above, or that they are sworn members of the criminal organization ‘Trinitarios’. It has also not been proven that the above-mentioned attack was carried out within the scope of the activities of that organization,” he concludes his sentence.

Red and green bandanas

The magistrate accepts that “presumed elements” were present during the investigation. Those studied have a particular approach or rapprochement to “Trinitarians”like “red and green bandanas and green braceletsDuring a search of the house of one of the detainees, colors and symbols specific to the Trinitarians were found, but these They have no “force” to accredit their “integration and permanence as chartered members”.

But above all, the judge criticizes the changes in the victim’s version in his decision; “Although it caused incurable injuries to his hands, preventing him from even working,” the victim’s statement said.variable, uncertain, patent conflicting and even, Indifference and laziness in responding He adds that “constant contradictions and inconsistencies in the victim’s statements prevent his recognition in the squad (of the attackers) from reaching the level of evidence for accusation.”

The judge concluded: “If his statement had been clear, precise, fixed and repeated, this statement and other statements arising from his statement, as he was the person directly affected by the crime, of particular interest and importance to the case“However, the victim objected to the sentence.