Francisco Javier Almeida, accused of murdering the nine-year-old boy Alex, in Lardero, in October 2021, has assured today that he remembers what happened that day with a "cloud" and has gone so far as to allege that the boy did everything "voluntarily". ".
Room 13 of the Provincial Court of Logroño hosts, today, the first session of the trial, by popular jury, against Francisco Javier Almeida, 55, to whom the Prosecutor requests permanent reviewable prison for a crime of murder; and fifteen years in prison for a crime of sexual assault, both committed on the child Alex.
"That day I drank a lot," Almeida said in what was his first statement since, until now, he had accepted his right not to do so. He has also assured that it was not his "intention to attack and kill him", although he has not explained what he was looking for or how everything happened.
"I can't tell you what I did, it was very fast," the defendant told the prosecutor, "I remember that I was carrying the child in my arms but it was because when something happened it turned on me and I grabbed it to ask for help and take it to the hospital."
He has said that he does not know how to "explain why the child came up" to his house. She has acknowledged that "he was in the bedroom" but has stated that the boy dropped his pants by himself. She has denied that she raped him, but has acknowledged that the sexual act occurred.
The lawyer for the private and popular prosecution, Alicia Redondo, has warned the jury that "the following days are going to be very unpleasant." He does not have "not a single doubt" that Almeida sexually assaulted the child "with great aggressiveness" and killed him.
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