French boxer Xabier Moingeon, who has lived in Valencia for decades, accepted a sentence on Monday. two years and nine months in prison for trying to strangle his neighbor last June after using a butane cylinder as a ram when he went upstairs to scold him for the noise. The person convicted of attempted murder was initially sentenced to eight years in prison, but his sentence was significantly reduced after the settlement was reached. His defense even demanded his suspension as an exceptional measure after he paid civil liability and lacked computable records.
The defendant, 51, and founder of a boxing school in the Monteolivete neighborhood, filed a criminal complaint before the Fifth Chamber of the Valencia County Court on Monday. He tried to kill his neighbor who opened the door with a knife.. After snatching the knife from him, he hit him hard on the head, and when his victim fell to the ground, he put his forearm around her neck and tried to strangle her by pressing the other. If he had not been taken aback by the National Police at that very moment, the now convicted man might have taken his own life.
A butane cylinder as a ram
The events took place on 2 June 2021 at around 4:30 pm on a farm on Pere Aleixandre street in València, when the accused went to his neighbor’s house in distress and shouted to scold him for the noise he had made. So, he tried to open the door hit him with a butane can like a ram.
Surprised by the police as he was about to strangle the accused, he would die a few minutes later.
The 64-year-old woman opened the door, trying to keep her distance from the attacker, after taking a kitchen knife to protect herself. Again, taking advantage of his martial knowledgeThe accused managed to snatch the gun from the woman’s hand and hit him hard on the head.
Fortunately, as soon as the event begins woman called 112 aggression alert from your neighbor. Quickly, several National Police patrols went to the house and thwarted the crime after surprising the now-convicted man as he tried to strangle his victim.
The room appreciates extenuating circumstances to repair the damage – for paying 7,140 Euros of 8,000 civil liabilities – and mental illness due to alcohol consumption. The verbal sentence includes two years and nine months in prison, seven probation, and a ten-year ban from approaching or communicating with his victim less than 500 meters away.