Legal representative Pedro Lozano Gimenez, known as Rambo de Requena, appealed to the Teruel Court after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting to kill two civilian guards who were pursuing him and who were shot while he fled through the Teruel mountains.
In his appeal, the Aragon High Court of Justice, TSJA, heard that the defense attorney argued there were “mistakes” in the court’s evaluation of the evidence. He maintained that neither the officers’ statements nor the expert testimony demonstrated the perpetrator’s intent to murder. The appeal contends that a shot fired with a BB gun by one of the agents, who managed to hide and seek protection, and the injuries to the other officer do not prove a murderous intent on the defendant’s part.
The lawyer representing the first officer argued that the defendant’s aim to kill would have produced a fatal outcome had more shots been fired. He claimed that, in the moment of astonishment, with the heads only a short distance apart and a little over a meter separating them, the defendant never fired at the head or vital organs. In parallel, the attorney for the private prosecution on behalf of the two agents, Jorge Piedrafita from Huesca, challenged the sentence, asking that the facts be recognized as an attempted murder rather than murder outright.
Piedrafita presented a detailed argument detailing the elements necessary to establish murder, asserting that the defendant’s conduct displayed treachery and cruelty, and that the evidence supported the classification as murder rather than a lesser offense. He contends that the behavior demonstrated the essential elements of the crime as defined by law and that the court should consider the actions a deliberate attempt to end a life.
Once these resources are submitted, each party will articulate claims that align with their respective briefs before they are transmitted to the TSJA for trial in court.
The Teruel Court indicted the defendants on two counts of attempted murder; one defendant received an 11-year sentence, and the other 9 years for causing serious injuries. The court also found him liable for additional offenses, including illegal possession of weapons (nine months), home robbery with permanence (four years and six months), vehicle theft with a 2,160 euro fine, reckless driving (one year), and coercion (nine months).
The presence of Rambo de Requena in Teruel province was detected in June 2020, after he had appeared in multiple violent crime television productions in the Valencian Community. He remains in custody awaiting trial and has been on the run through woodlands and rural areas since the incident.