The Provincial Court of Tarragona held this Thursday the trial for a violent assault registered on December twenty-ninth, two thousand nineteen on calle Mossèn Jaume Tobella de Calafell. The events took place inside a shared dwelling where several tenants live. The prosecution places the critical moment around nine in the morning.
Escalation of the confrontation and fiscal version
The Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that an argument between some occupants escalated in tone until it completely got out of control. According to the indictment, three men directed their joint action against another of those present. The victim managed to break free and went outside, but was pursued and attacked with an eighteen-centimeter black screwdriver, stones, and a knife. The fiscal text details that the assault lasted for a considerable time and that some of the blows were directed at the head, a particularly vulnerable area. To defend himself, the victim used a pointed piece of glass and a camping pickaxe.
Police intervention and requested measures
A patrol from the Local Police of Calafell went to the scene and proceeded to the arrest of the three men under investigation. The officers seized both the victim's sharp glass and tool, as well as the screwdriver and several stones belonging to the defendants. Medical reports indicate that the injuries to the head and dorsal area took up to fourteen days to heal and left permanent consequences. The prosecutor requests a sentence of eight years in prison for each of the accused. Furthermore, he proposes that after serving four years, the remainder of the sentence be commuted for their expulsion from Spain and prohibit their return for ten years. He also requests a fifteen-year restraining order preventing them from approaching within three hundred meters of the complainant. Regarding civil liability, the public ministry leaves the door open for claiming compensation.
Defense Positioning
"after several hours of trial, the feeling is that for a tumultuous altercation, people who did not assault the complainant have been prosecuted, and that neither he nor the police know what really happened" - Isaac González, office 8Penal
One of the defendants has already entered provisional prison while the other two remain locked up for different crimes. The judicial process advances towards the final sentence without there being any firm convictions yet. The chamber will now await the magistrates' resolution to determine if the evidence gathered supports the narrative of events or if the defense's version prevails in the evidentiary assessment.