Jamal was 17 years old when taking two ecstasy pills ended his life at the beginning of last summer. His grandmother, Rosa Valcárcel, considered the young man as a son, since she raised him from a very young age with his brother. Following the complaint from his mother, a 26-year-old man was arrested as the person who allegedly supplied him with the drug.
Months after his death, Rosa continues to demand justice for her grandson. The detainee entered provisional prison and faces 13 years in prison for crimes against public health, illicit possession of weapons and reckless homicide, since he would not have taken into account Jamal's minority and the effect of the substance on your body.
The 69-year-old 'grandmother courage' went to the Telecinco program TardeAR this Monday to tell all the details about how she managed to put her grandson's alleged murderer in the dock. "Her brother was able to identify this person through photographic recognition, and also a friend of the deceased," explained Beatriz Uriarte, lawyer in the case and collaborator of the television program.
"It's the last thing I could imagine about my grandson, what's more, if I had known something, I think I have a lot of influence on them and I could have done something, I don't know," Rosa says of the moment she found out that her grandson Jamal had taken ecstasy. "He studied, he was a very good person, a very special and very funny boy," she said.
"He was a child who suddenly grew up, wanted to try things and that's what I can imagine and what happened," he said in the program presented by Ana Rosa Quintana, adding, in the host's words, that "he can happen to anyone" and that "they don't know what they are given.
"Jamal had consumed two ecstasy pills, nothing more. What's more, when he arrived at the hospital, the doctor who treated him in the ambulance told us that he had taken everything, and I was absolutely surprised. He had not drunk anything, because then His partner appeared and said that they had not taken anything, only two ecstasy pills," Rosa said.
