After an agreement with the accusations, the Prosecutor’s Office asks for 26 years in prison
BARCELONA, Nov. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A defendant has recognized this Thursday in the Barcelona Court that he killed a man with a pistol from whom he bought cocaine so as not to pay him.
The popular jury trial was scheduled to last for a week but it was settled this Thursday after the agreement between the Prosecutor’s Office, the private prosecution representing the victim’s family and the defendant’s defense.
The defendant has admitted the facts in exchange for a reduction in the sentence he faces, which has dropped from the 31 years and one month that the Prosecutor’s Office initially claimed at 26 years and one month that both accusations now claim for the alleged crimes of murder, illegal possession of weapons, robbery and drug trafficking.
As it is a jury trial, the popular court will also deliberate starting Friday morning and must issue a reasoned verdict on the man’s guilt or not.
The defendant has acknowledged that in October 2013 he went, armed and together with another man already firmly convicted of the same acts, to a house with the intention of buying cocaine but using counterfeit bills to avoid paying for the drug.
When the vendor realized the deception, they agreed to kill him and “one of them with the consent of the other” shot and killed him.
Neither of them has confessed who fired the shot and in the case there is no evidence to prove it, but as the prosecutor has warned the jury “what needs to be proven is concert and common agreement, it doesn’t matter who fired the shot.”
