The Tenerife Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has increased from three years and four months to four years of prison sentencing requests for two accused of hit and steal still migrant homeless.
The events occurred in the Plaza de España in the capital around 5:00 p.m. on February 14. In principle, the Public Ministry requested convictions for a crime of injuries, although now they would become robbery with violence and intimidation with a blunt object. The rest maintains the sentence of four years and four months for the charge of injuries aggravated by deformity and sanction for failure to stay away.
The defense requests free acquittal or that at most he be considered responsible for a minor crime of injuries without prison sentences, as it was not proven that he was responsible for the attack but rather that it would be the complainant who breached the restraining order. At the trial that took place today, only one of the accused was present, who is in provisional detention, while the other’s whereabouts are unknown.
In her statement, the victim maintained that she knew the two alleged attackers because they lived around Plaza de España and were also migrants and homeless. She has claimed to be unaware that a restraining order had been imposed on the defendant who was in court today as a result of his complaint that he filed a complaint because the defendant had hit him. He has also reported that he was a valet and that when he was walking through the Plaza that day he met the two accused, at which time one first punched him with a hand that had a large ring on it and the other threw a hand at him. stone. As a result of all this, the victim suffered two injuries to the jaw and the side of the head that were inflicted “with extreme force,” according to the expert.
He has also said that the accused who attended the trial asked the other to leave him alone but was also responsible for hitting him, having his cell phone taken and breaking it, without being able to specify exactly who was responsible for each of the actions. since he doesn’t remember. The statement was also confusing about how many teeth he had lost; He stated that one but the expert report speaks of two. Weeks later he filed a complaint and later recognized them through photographs, given that it was not the first altercation in which all of them had been involved.
The expert speaks of a strong trauma compatible with having received at least two blows that fractured his jaw bone, one on the chin and another on the side of the face, although she could not specify which of them corresponded to a stone. or punch. He also described the deformity produced as “important”, which gives rise to a considerable aesthetic effect.
The accused said that it was the complainant who ran up to him, he knew him from the municipal shelter and because “he was always drunk”, he denied that he was with the defendant and that he had hit him, but simply threw a small stone at him. He also does not recognize that he robbed him and said that he was the one who started insulting and attacking him so that he limited himself to defending himself and added that before the fight he was already bloody. He even claims that he called an ambulance and poured some water on him when he was on the ground injured but awake.
The Prosecutor’s Office also requests joint civil liability of 27,000 euros for the personal and aesthetic damage caused and the functional consequences suffered.
