Juan Alcocer was 73 years previous when he was run over 100 meters from his dwelling by a driver who examined constructive for alcohol, cocaine and hashish. The household asks that the penalties for one of these crime be harder by a petition to gather signatures that already whole 68,400 Mei , daughter of the deceased: “We can now not do something to recuperate it, however we should not stand nonetheless both”
The household of Juan Alcocer continues unstoppable in its function of amassing signatures with the purpose of toughening the penalties for drivers who trigger deaths because of drunk or drugged driving. A tragedy that they’ve skilled in first individual when a 12 months in the past Juan misplaced his life after being run over in Utiel (Valencia).
Mei’s petition, daughter of the deceased, already has greater than 68,400 signatures, with 6,589 lacking to succeed in 75,000 and attain Congress.
This Thursday, January 26, marks one 12 months because the lethal hit-and-run. “From the primary second we have been informed that my father was going to move away,” says Mei. Juan Alcocer was returning dwelling after his day by day stroll when, whereas crossing the final zebra crossing, he was hit by a automobile pushed by a person who had virtually quadrupled his blood alcohol stage (0.95 mg/l) and had additionally consumed cocaine and hashish.
“The automobile ran over our father mercilessly and at excessive pace, displacing him a number of meters and inflicting very severe accidents that, after three days of struggling within the ICU, ended his life,” says Mei Alcocer in a press release from the household, which is awaiting trial.
“Since then we’ve been dwelling by hell and we’ve been coping with it as finest we are able to, with the assistance of psychologists, as a result of it’s one thing that might have been averted,” says Mei, who regrets that her father is “within the cemetery” whereas this individual, the motive force, he’s dwelling a life after snatching one other.” “Is this truthful?” he wonders. “We know him from the city, there are family who’ve to return throughout him day-after-day,” he laments.
The driver left after testing constructive for alcohol and medicines
In addition, Mei denounces that regardless of testing constructive for medicine and alcohol, the motive force was not even arrested. According to what he recounts, “the Local Police got here after the discover, and never the Civil Guard, and after finishing up the pertinent exams, they let him depart after he was a pal to take the automotive”, and so it says within the assertion of the info, declares.
For this purpose, they affirm “they’re going to go all out”, not solely with the motive force, but in addition to “ask the suitable obligations in case there had been a malpractice”, says Mei.
Cases like these occur day by day. “They all had the proper to reside. We can now not do something to recuperate it, however we should not stand nonetheless both”, says Mei, who denounces that “street violence is the good forgotten of justice”.
With the purpose of “preventing in order that it doesn’t occur to different individuals” three months in the past, the household opened the petition ‘Justice for Juan Alcocer’ on the platform addressed to the Ministry of Justice and its proprietor, Pilar Llop, for the modification of the Code Penal.
Heavier penalties for these crimes
“We aren’t going to permit one of these injustice to proceed occurring. For our father Juan and for all of the victims like him, we ask for justice and that his petition attain Congress, ”says the household within the textual content that heads the petition.
In this sense, he defends that it’s vital that these crimes don’t go unpunished, as a result of with sentences of lower than two years in jail, if there is no such thing as a legal report, the sentence isn’t served. With 75,000 signatures, this petition would attain Congress and change into one of the crucial signed on Change.org. Currently, 68,411 individuals have signed.
Thus, it requires a modification of the Penal Code by which crimes dedicated by those that drive in a severe reckless method or drunk and/or narcotic substances, inflicting loss of life or accidents and sequelae, have legislative remedy and decrease penalties of a minimal of three years in jail, additionally growing the upper jail sentence to eight years.