The Catalan Generalitat pays 600,000 euros to the household of a Brians 2 inmate who was killed by one other inmate in 2020

The prisoner accused of killing one other inmate in October 2020 within the courtyard of the Brians 2 jail, within the municipality of Sant Esteve de Sesrovires (Barcelona), has assured throughout his assertion at trial that somebody requested him to kill the sufferer: “They requested me if I may do a small favor as a result of I now not had something to lose.”

This is what he stated in his assertion this Friday through the first session of the trial earlier than the Barcelona Court, wherein he solely answered questions from his lawyer and wherein the favored jury was additionally constituted and the writings of accusation.

According to the prosecutor’s transient, the defendant was sentenced for against the law of homicide with a firearm to twenty years in jail on June 10, 2014, and was within the Brians 2 jail serving this primary sentence.

At round 7:15 p.m. on October 13, 2020, the defendant was within the courtyard of module 3 underneath the surveillance and custody of varied officers, and “with out saying a phrase or prior dialogue with the sufferer and moved with the clear intention of ending his life or being totally conscious of the danger that his motion entailed”, with a 20-centimeter knife he stabbed him about 20 occasions, a few of them in important organs.

The sufferer was unable to defend himself.

The sufferer “was unable to supply an efficient protection towards the assault as a consequence of its suddenness and unexpectedness, because the sufferer was completely unaware, assured, and fully unarmed.”

After the assault, the defendant allegedly threatened the officers: “Don’t get shut or I’ll poke you. I’ve nothing towards you, however do not get shut. I haven’t got something towards you, however in the event you get near him or me I’m going to chop you off. And sure, he’s already useless, I’ve pricked him within the neck and within the coronary heart a number of occasions”.

The prosecution requests 28 years in jail for the crime of homicide with treachery and for the crime of assault, whereas the personal prosecution requests 25 years in jail with absolute disqualification and the defendant’s protection requests a confession mitigation and the free acquittal of the accused.

In addition, the prosecution requests that the General Directorate of Penitentiary Centers of the Department of Justice be condemned as vicariously chargeable for the homicide, which is why the Generalitat has already paid 600,000 euros to the sufferer’s household as compensation.

defendant’s assertion

The defendant, throughout his assertion this Friday, has refused to say who gave him details about the sufferer and who gave him the knife with which he killed the opposite prisoner: “The individual I killed didn’t know her. The knife had been there since October 2018 in my cell hiding in case there was a riot or if my life was in peril”.

“It will not be regular for an individual like me, who’s sentenced till 2050, to be in jail with regular prisoners and with none assist. In 2016 I already stabbed one other inmate, I used to be in isolation for 9 months. I do not need to return with frequent prisoners. A couple of days earlier than the homicide with the knife I broke the jaw of one other. Now I’ve been in isolation for 3 years,” he stated.

The defendant has assured verbatim that the issue he has is that they’ve him in a yard the place they know he has nothing to lose, the place they’ll ask him for any job, and he does it if he finds it honest.

“Inside I had nothing to lose, I’m sentenced to loss of life in jail. I’m presupposed to be a hazard to society. Either they’ll kill me or I’ll proceed killing, the wheel goes like this. If they do not switch me to a most safety jail, the wheel will proceed”, he assured.

If they do not switch me to a most safety jail, the wheel will proceed

Likewise, the prisoner has said that he “didn’t need to see the sufferer endure” and that he tried to make loss of life as fast as potential, and that, after the occasion within the courtyard and that a number of officers tried to cut back it, he ended up dropping the knife after negotiating with the pinnacle of jail providers to carry him water and tobacco to smoke a cigarette, in his phrases.

reinsertion

The defendant has denied any “sort of reintegration therapy by jail officers and any sort of remedy”, and has assured that in three years of isolation he has solely seen a psychiatrist twice and that the one answer that Dan is the treatment, although he refuses to take it.

“I’m not afraid for my life. In all of the prisons I’ve been in, they’ve taken every part from me, they’ve crushed me, I’m already very drained. You perceive that I’ve been alone in a cell for 22 hours a day for 3 years, I do not talk with anybody. Understand that I’m not used to speaking to folks,” he added.

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