“I couldn’t believe what happened two years ago and now I can’t believe what justice has done.” She is the mother of Rocío Hijano. Antonio Hag, known as ‘Peke’; and to her friends ‘Jessy’ Jessica Marquez’s mother-in-law. They were killed on 27 July 2020 in El Álamo (Madrid). They were 28 and 27 years old and had four underage daughters. “It was atrocious…” he explains. “Four people They’re killing my family, only one is going to jail and now the prime suspect is on the loose.“.
President of Navalcarnero’s Order Court No. 5 on 11 July Released on bail of 6,000 eurosIn temporary prison since March 2021 Arrested eight months later, hiding inside a polygon in Borox (Toledo). “I don’t understand how a judge would decide to release him after he managed to catch this person,” Rocío denounced.
The bodies of Peke and Jessy running to their death were discovered in a ditch the next day. Lucia, their sister-in-law, survived with them. The prime suspect was arrested eight months later. She went to temporary prison, she. Blackmail, contradictions, lies. While awaiting trial, she was released for a month.
Rocio shares custody of grandchildren with family Jessy’s. While talking to OPEN CASES, Prensa Ibérica’s events and investigation portal, she answers her mother-in-law’s call. He’ll take the girls with him before he goes to work. Marked by pain, he walks forward “as far as he can,” but looking back is inevitable.
request: fear
July 26, 2020. Party, music, flamenco. Two young people gather their relatives to celebrate “el pedimiento”, a marriage proposal between two gypsy families. Two clans embrace at the Layso restaurant in El Álamo (Madrid). On the one hand, the ‘stable owners’ settled in the municipality of Navalcarnero. On the other hand, they are members of another family living in the neighborhoods of Vallecas and Moratalaz. 90 seats count. The few in Vallecas did not reach him. Sarao starts at 19:30, everything is laughter, at 11:30 comes fear.
The music of the celebration started the discussion. Some wanted to start the meal, others wanted one more song. “It wasn’t a fight,” Rocío tells CASE OPEN, “it was a lynching.”
The images covered the news. The documents of the case accessed by this medium tell that a pitched battle took place. “I still can’t believe it,” Rocio interrupts.
camp war
“There were nine of my family members. Four married couples and my nephew, who was underage at the time. This information is important because they had no chance to defend themselves… there were nine against the others,” explains Rocío. . To the pain caused by the death of his son and daughter-in-law, he has to add the pain of listening to how they describe crime with phrases such as “settlement of accounts”, “fight between clans”.
“He wasn’t. Yes, two people had a fight, but they were from the same family. Two cousins of the groom’s father,” she explains, “my brother-in-law tried to mediate and it all went for him.” Insults, curses, fences, stones and sticks in the air.
deadly hit
“My brother-in-law was unconscious on the floor,” he complains. “My family could just run away.” They did so. “To the restaurant mine came in two carsbut when it was time to escape, one of the vehicles was parked far away and all the gypsies were around,” explains Peke’s mother, “so they ran towards the other and 9 people got on the 7-person minibus in a row, exit”.
An Iranian immigrant in an illegal situation went to the barracks and confessed his guilt. The Civil Guard learned that the accused had bribed the man to incriminate himself in exchange for tobacco and shelter.
Already in the car, on the run, IVallecas crushes a few, one is small. “This is truemy son did not stop. But they were going to kill them, it was impossible to stop. The hit-and-run victims broke their ankles, injured their faces, and one had a dislocated shoulder.”
A pack of Calé chased them as they fled, but The van got stuck in a culvert and the car didn’t move, so they had to get out. “They got out of the car and followed me, even asking for help from the Civil Guard before escaping across the field.”Nine hid in the field and in that hiding place only six came out,” complains Rocío. Peke and Jessy died there.
“They were all hiding in the bushes and decided to go out. They had to cross the road. They saw a car coming and six of them had time to cross,” he says. “Well, Jessy and Lucia, my other daughter-in-law, stay on the field. The car chasing them sees them, enters the ground and passes over the three of them.”
“They are killed if they are not detained”
Six members of the Vallecas clan search for the rest of the family from the chalet that provides them shelter. At home, Rocio calls the Civil Guard: “Three people are missing. If you don’t detain them, they killed us.”. Civil Guard members from El Álamo and neighboring towns surround the bar: “They told me ‘your son has run over a few people, he’s going to hide’”.
Tried to locate them, the phone didn’t give a signal. “We’ve been looking for my son Jessy and Lucia all night.” They would show up in the morning lying in the gutter. Seeing that 18-year-old Lucia’s hand was twitching, some workers called 112. on the side of the road, at kilometer 6 of the M-404 .
“She spent eight hours dying near Jessy’s body.” He was transferred to the Hospital on October 12, “Miraculously survived.” Jessy, lifeless, appeared beside him. Peke would do it hours later, her body half hidden in the bushes. Because both could not be done more.
Bribery and escape
A black BMW car. That’s the only lead the Civil Guards have. witnesses hired silence. No one had anything to contribute. Those from Vallecas contributed some brushstrokes: “Jesus C. was in the car, so was Billy…”.
Four days later, he would show up hiding in a beer truck with a black BMW 6 miles away. The Criminalistics Service pressed the switch: Inside the car was the DNA of the prime suspect, Jesus G. The owner of the vehicle was a beggar with a criminal record and 36 vehicles to his name, as they would later learn.
money and charm
This is not the first challenge the agents have had to overcome during the investigation. According to the documents of the case, two people falsely accused themselves in these two years. double crime. Researchers both bribe by the alleged perpetrator, who offered and promised them “4,000 euros and a good life in prison” I used to give them a job on the fairground ride when they got out of jail.
According to the investigations, one of the criminals was visited the same morning: “You must say you ran more than three times,” he asked. “But I don’t know how to drive,” the man replied. In the end, he was paid to perform the task, but he never did. He went with the money, he would tell later (before the representatives, also before the judge). YeahYour testimony is the key to the case.
Trying to hold himself accountable for the crime, the second man stormed into the barracks, confident that he was responsible for the anger. He did this in the company of a lawyer and the main suspect’s brother. he is iranian He said he was in a disorderly situation in Spain and that street vendors helped his family in exchange for shelter and tobacco. Investigators, faced with his contradictions, denied his involvement.
The stable owners abandoned Navalcarnero. They disappeared. Also, Jesús G. No activity on their bank account, no sign of him. Memorizing the summary of the investigation, Rocío says, “He hid for eight months. Without sending his children to school, not even getting his pension because he has a disabled son.” “He hid in Borox (Toledo) with the help of his wife’s uncle.” He was arrested on March 16, 2021. Given the evidence and he was ordered to be put in a temporary prison due to the high risk of escape.
Freedom
The investigation by agents of the Civil Guard Murder Group managed to find four people in the vehicle of deadly rage over time and time. Probably driving Jesús G., his then-underage son and two cousins.
While the main suspect is already in jail, the little boy goes with his family to the Civil Guard and makes sure he’s the one driving the car. Madrid Juvenile Prosecutor sued for lack of credibility, “It was a maneuver for the benefit of the father,” says Rocío. A report from the Civil Guard confirms that the BMW had the boy’s DNA, “he was inside, we have no doubt, but he wasn’t driving.”
But the judge has his doubts: “It is true that there are solid and reasonable indications of the authorship of Jesús G., but it is no less true that the conclusion of the report allows the placement of the minor in the vehicle,” he says. an order allowing the alleged author’s conditional release, dated a few weeks ago, to which this media had access.
Peke’s mother says, “It was already known that the minor was in the car, there is nothing new in the investigation that puts the blame on Jesús G. I don’t think he has the right to freely await his trial.”
Seek justice, not revenge. “We could go looking for them and confront them, but we’re not like that, we turn to the Civil Guard, the judge, who have to protect us. We just want them to pay what they have to pay. calm and proud of what they’ve done… Peke and Jessy are not here”.