A single individual was sentenced in May 2022 to 6 years in jail for assaulting the house of Jordi Comas Matamala, president of the Girona Federation of Business Organizations (FOEG). No one has been punished for his homicide. The thieves entered his home in Platja d’Aro in November 2012, tied up the 67-year-old businessman and gagged him to such an extent that he died of suffocation. They additionally tied up and beat his spouse, Carme Hospital
The TV3 program ‘Crims’ critiques this Monday the unsolved crime within the second chapter of its new season. The true crime area has already managed to reopen the case of the demise of Helena Jubany. The area interviews the businessman’s widow for the primary time. Comas’ demise triggered an incredible commotion within the municipality, he owned a number of resorts and had been a councilor and deputy mayor of Platja d’Aro.
The occasion triggered a stir within the Baix Empordà area, which that yr was the goal of a number of violent assaults. His demise accelerated the set up of video cameras and license plate readers.
Entrance of three hooded males via the window
It was the evening of November 18, 2012, when three hooded males entered via the window into the home of Jordi Comas and Carme Hospital. The thieves had been on the lookout for jewellery and cash and knew they might discover the occupants awake and must use bodily power. It was 10 pm at evening. So they tied the couple hand and foot in separate rooms. The investigation concluded that they lined Comas’ mouth with a handkerchief and a cushion to forestall him from screaming.
His spouse did not see him, since they had been saved in separate rooms, however she heard him yell till she stopped listening to him and knew one thing had occurred. Jordi Comas died a couple of minutes later and the assailants left the house. It was his spouse who, after discovering him lifeless, notified the Mossos.
Investigators thought-about the potential for a coronary heart assault since Comas had well being issues. But the post-mortem confirmed that Comas had died of suffocation: the three assailants obstructed his airways and, due to this fact, dedicated homicide.
A deliberate heist
The investigation found that the identical perpetrators of the crime had tried to enter the house three weeks earlier, however that they fled when the alarm went off. The couple was putting in a brand new safety system and Comas believed thieves wouldn’t break in in the event that they noticed occupants on the property.
During the investigation, the Mossos arrested as much as 13 individuals for the assault on the couple’s residence. However, there was a scarcity of proof to seek out the fabric authors of the suffocation. The investigation was open for nearly a decade on account of lack of proof. In 2019, the investigating courtroom archived the proceedings and concluded that the participation of 13 investigated on this violent theft was not “duly accredited”.
A single convicted of theft
The choose tried three suspects for theft and unlawful detention, however two of them had been acquitted for lack of proof. Only one, Ahmed Kurti, an Albanian nationwide, was sentenced to 6 years in jail for violent assault, however not for murder.
The sentence dominated that Kurti entered Comas’s residence inside “a beforehand designed plan, both by monitoring the environment, forcing or serving to to power a window via which three individuals of unknown id entered.” The indications from the courtroom had been that the Platja d’Aro cameras situated Kurti within the environment of the crime scene that evening in 2012. They recorded the Audi S3 that he had stolen days earlier than in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) with the aim of transfer to the home of Comas to steal.
Kurti confirmed up on the businessman’s residence round ten at evening, understanding that the couple can be awake. After the assault, round eleven at evening, the cameras captured the Audi on the A2 within the path of Barcelona driving recklessly suitable with a hasty escape and inside, as soon as the automobile was recovered in L’Hospitalet, they discovered bins with jewellery stolen from Comas’ residence, a cigarette and a black glove “with DNA suitable with Kurti.” The prosecution requested for him 15 years.
The new season of ‘Crims’ recalled final Monday the case of Marina Ruiz, a younger girl from Cervera discovered useless on the practice tracks and murdered by her boyfriend.