Mother of young Alex who was beaten vegetative state He asked those who attacked his son in Amorebieta (Bizkaia) on July 25, 2021, why they did this.
At the beginning of the hearing, which started in Bizkaia Court on Monday, the victim’s parents stated that before the night of the incident, their son was a “healthy” young man, but now he was “wrong”. and I stated this Doctors told them ‘there is no hope’ To recover while remaining bedridden due to severe neurological disorder.
The events on trial occurred on: July 25, 2021 A group of men, aged 15 to 38, in a park in the Biscayan municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano. Youth group called “Koala Brothers”, They beat a young man until he fainted.
23-year-old Alexandru was beaten with sticks and bottles, punched and kicked by approximately twenty people from the organization that caused him. He was seriously injured, fell into a coma and is in serious pain today disability.
This is the second case to be tried regarding this attack. eight minors sentenced to prison Who also participated in the attack?
The young man’s parents stated that they received it. 840,000 euro compensation It is because of the consequences suffered by their son that they are committed to caring for him and they believe it is not enough. “There is no life for me or my son,” the mother complained.
Seven defendants who came of age in the first session The prosecutor’s office asked for 14 years and 8 months They blamed the beatings on two minors convicted of attempted murder, who admitted they barely remembered what happened because they were drunk, and neither explained how or why it started.
The parties watched several videos uploaded by the defendant to social networks. 50-second recording of the attack and the image of the unconscious victim at the end of the attack. The group also uploaded recordings of “violent attacks” on other people that same night, according to the prosecutor.
None of the defendants knew the victim, none of them saw the origins of the alleged argument that led to the attack, none of them admitted to hitting Alex despite admitting they witnessed it, and none of them explained why they hit him. Not calling emergency services when they see the situation the victim is in.
Somehow they ignored that they were acting criminal group. The family’s lawyer said that they acted like a gang that committed robbery by force and attacked other young people, and refuted this claim, saying that the “Koala brothers” were, in his words, “a WhatsApp group” or a “gang”. They were uploading to WhatsApp groups or networks like Instagram or Tik Tok.
In the recordings, one of the defendants was seen putting his hand into the pants pocket of the victim, who was already unconscious, but he denied stealing his phone, and the person who uploaded the videos of the attack with the statement “I do not do it” was also included in the recordings. “Don’t blame me, I was farting,” indicating that he did it because he “felt bad.”
The hearing will continue tomorrow with the statements of Ertzaintza agents who participated in the investigation of these events.