Citizen of Chechen origin was arrested on Tuesday Catalan prison of Brians2 within the framework of the operation carried out Mossos d’Esquadra and Civil Guard against terrorism jihadist He was sentenced to prison last November. Court of Alicante for participating in an event shooting in 2018 in the “guiri” area Benidorm.
German BagaevHe, along with two other people arrested in this operation, were released without bail after being referred to the courthouse yesterday on charges related to these events. National Courtl, where the three exercised their right not to declare
assisted by Bagaev Alicante lawyers Moisés Candela and Francisco Galiana BotellaHe was taken back to a Barcelona prison to serve his sentence for the shooting and being caught in a car with a Ukrainian citizen. weapons of war. For these latest events, he was sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in prison, with 4 months remaining on that sentence.
The National Court Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the conditional release of three detained suspects, with the obligation to appear in court periodically. ban on leaving national territory with passport delivery.
In the case of the Chechen citizen, considering the prison situation he was in, which largely determined the judge’s decision, he raised the possibility that the decision could be changed if he was released due to parole.
This is an investigation involving records from Barcelona towns. Rubí, Sant Pere de Ribes and Martorell, Brians 2 prison and also in Mérida regarding a terrorist network “spreading over several towns”. Ammunition, electronic devices and documents were seized.
The operation affected prisoners at Brians, although not initially for jihadist crimes. The prisoner of Chechen origin is actually a person serving a sentence for other crimes such as possession of property. grenade.
Dismissal due to conviction
Last November, the Alicante Court heard the case regarding the shooting of a man in Benidorm; In this case, four of the five defendants, one of whom was a Chechen citizen, pleaded guilty, thus reducing the requested period of twelve and a half years. one to two years and three months each. The fifth defendant was declared in absentia.
The man who was shot twice in Benidorm appeared at the hearing to state that he had received compensation and that he would feel safer if the attacker had been shot. was expelled from the country.
Main defendant Bagaev agreed to a prison sentence 2 years and 3 months imprisonment and 180 euro fine and apologized to the victim. His lawyer, Galiana Botella, asked the court to agree to replace the sentence with dismissal, a measure that was about to be implemented when this latest arrest took place.
The events in Benidorm took place on Mallorca Street at around 21:00 on July 4, 2018.
The defendant argued with the victim to scare her, and a fight broke out, involving more people and using bottles and blunt objects. One of them, considering himself in an inferior position, pulled out a gun and handed it to another defendant, who fired several shots into the ground, which ricocheted and hit the victim. The prosecutor did not realize that they intended to kill him in the end, as he initially claimed.