The lawyers of the two brothers accused of chasing by car and causing the death of their sister, her daughter and her brother-in-law have explained that it was a traffic accident when they followed the other car because they believed that their nieces were in danger, and in which they could have died.
This Monday, the Provincial Court of Madrid began the jury trial against the brothers Emilio David and Manuel J.P., for whom the Prosecutor's Office is asking for 67 and 62 years in prison for causing the death of their sister and her 9-year-old daughter. and his brother-in-law, and injuring the woman's other daughter, then 12 years old, on August 24, 2020 on the outskirts of Móstoles (Madrid).
The Public Ministry charges both with three crimes of completed homicide, one with the aggravating circumstance of relationship and another with attempted homicide. In addition, the first is accused of reckless driving.
This Monday the popular jury was formed and the parties have presented the previous questions, in which the president of the Chamber has accepted that Emilio David J.P. undergo a forensic examination to determine if he has the capacity to understand the trial on his own or requires assistance, as his defense had requested by presenting a report that ensures that he has a 49% disability.
The prosecutor has considered it proven that the two accused, by common agreement, wanted to kill or at least knew that they could cause death when they rammed the car of the deceased on three occasions, until they ran them off the road.
He has reported that the problem between the members of the clan arose when the minor who was injured was going to get married and her maternal grandmother wanted to prepare the so-called handkerchief test to verify her virginity, since she was "the matriarch", but the girl found herself uncomfortable. upon being "pressured" and called her mother, Pilar.
Pilar went to the home accompanied by her brother-in-law Raúl, since he was a VTC driver, and in the apartment Pilar and her mother had a "very strong" argument, with "cursing", in which the two accused were present, who "decided to defend the honor" of the family, so when they see that their sister Pilar takes their daughters, they pursue her until they cause the fatal accident.
For its part, the defense of Emilio David J.P. He has maintained that his client is "a special person, with a series of limitations, due to which he does not understand what has happened and why he is here," without him being able to have "criminal intelligence capacity."
He has reported that that day Emilio David saw his mother "worried" about his granddaughters, who had "disappeared" in a car, and thus had "a perception of risk for his nieces" and "initiated an action that he was forced to defend." to the family", in which a traffic accident occurred.
The defense of Manuel J.P. has requested absolution because he was not driving the car and only got into the vehicle to accompany his brother because he knows that he is vulnerable, after his sister Pilar arrived upset at her mother's house and maintained "disrespectful and threatening and came to shake, insulting.
Manuel's lawyer has maintained that Pilar's mother had prepared "the meeting ceremony" with love but the girl wanted to leave at ungodly hours, so she and her brothers accompanied her to the street, where Pilar and her brother-in-law Raúl arrived. , who was tired from a celebration and had consumed cannabis and diazepam. The trial will continue this week with the testimony of witnesses.
