“The jury unanimously finds him guilty of 3 murders and, by a majority, of 3 crimes against moral integrity with a mitigating chemical dependency,” the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) wrote on Twitter, after the trial in Barcelona.
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“The maximum sentence will be 40 years in prison,” stated the TSJC about this trial that began on June 12 and in which the accused had already admitted his guilt.
In the agreement reached with the Public Ministry, the accused accepted a sentence of 63 years in prison.
Among the murdered homeless people there was a 23-year-old Moroccan, a 67-year-old Spaniard, and a 32-year-old Frenchman, Arrels Fundació (Raízes Foundation), a Catalan association that cares for people living on the streets and which acted as assistant prosecutor at the trial.
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The three murders took place over 11 days in April 2020, in central locations in Barcelona, and the suspect was arrested that same month.
According to the prosecutor, the accused took the lives of the three people “while they were sleeping on the public road, taking advantage of their vulnerability and the impossibility of asking for help due to the emergency situation and confinement of the population”, reported the TSJC.
After his arrest, the Catalan police highlighted the “disproportionate and gratuitous” violence he used against his victims.
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Spain declared a state of emergency due to the Covid pandemic on March 14, 2020, beginning the total confinement of the population, which lasted a month, followed by the imposition of strict restrictions on movement until May 2021.
According to the latest Arrels report, from 2022, more than 1.200 people live on the streets in Barcelona and, since 2015 until now, more than 400 have died due to the cold, disease or violence.
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