The Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution have asked to sentence the accused of murdering his ex-partner and his daughter, with whom he still lived, to a reviewable permanent prison on Twelfth Night 2020 in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), while his defense requests that be acquitted or sentenced to a maximum of 15 years.
In the indictments, to which Europa Press has had access, both the prosecutor and the private prosecution - exercised by the family of the victims - request a permanent reviewable sentence for the murder of the minor, in addition to 25 years in prison for the murder of the woman.
They also ask to sentence the man to three years in prison for an alleged crime of habitual abuse and four more years and a fine of 5,760 euros for an alleged crime against privacy when checking the woman's mobile.
The trial will be carried out by jury at the Barcelona Court as of April 27, and the accusations state in their writings that the man allegedly committed the crimes after reviewing the woman's messages with another man, which "provoked jealousy and a great anger." Later that night, he entered the room where the three-year-old girl and the 28-year-old woman were sleeping, and allegedly stabbed them to death.
The woman had left the relationship with the man in August 2019, and he, without accepting it, "began to show attitudes of control and possession towards her and subjected her to a dynamic of continuous reproaches, insults, monitoring and surveillance and even physical and mental attacks", says the prosecutor.
He had also sent the woman WhatsApp messages with reproaches and insults, and "in the course of this escalation of surveillance and monitoring, in the last months of living together" the man checked her mobile phone.
Instead, the defense affirms in its brief that the night of the crimes the defendant "had a reaction conditioned by his personality traits with mixed-anxious-depressive adjustment disorder and schizotypal personality disorder, which added to a situation of growing jealousy, made that he acted in an absolutely unpredictable way and as if he were not the owner of his actions as a result of a fit".
He adds that later he himself called the 112 emergency telephone number to confess, and asks that he be acquitted or that his confession be taken into account as mitigating factors and that he acted "for causes or stimuli so powerful that they have produced outburst, obstinacy or another state of passion of a similar entity", so he wants a maximum of 15 years in prison to be imposed on him.
