“I saw someone’s arms accompanying the fall of a blonde boy, with his body completely inert and his arms forming an X; I saw it perfectly”a witness of the alleged case stated in the trial murder of a German tourist in Palma in October 2022. The man, who was the co-pilot in the car that passed next to the van from which the victim was supposedly thrown, maintains that at that moment he alerted 112 that “he believed he had been thrown onto the highway.” , although he has insisted that “he cannot claim that he was pushed or held down.”
This Friday the third session of the jury trial began in the Palma Court against the two accused of the death of the touristfor whom the Prosecutor’s Office requests 25 years in prison and the joint payment of compensation of around 200,000 euros. Thus, in his statement, the witness reported that on the day of the events he saw a white van doing “strange things”, at low speed and traveling from side to side on the MA-19 highway from Llucmajor to Palma.
As he began to overtake the van in the left lane, he saw the left door of the vehicle open and arms accompanying the fall of a body that fell on the road, that of the young German tourist, who then He was hit by a car that couldn’t avoid him. “We got very nervous. We expected them to stop or do something but they did absolutely nothing.“added the witness.
“He fell like a sack of potatoes”
“Sorry for the expression, but fell like a sack of potatoes. “I think the young man already fell dead, since he didn’t make any gesture,” he insisted during his statement. In addition, he commented that, after witnessing the situation, they took an exit from the highway that leads to a shopping center and his partner – who was driving the car – and he called 112. “I told them that they had thrown it onto the highway. When we saw ambulances, sirens and the Civil Guard, we already went home,” he said.
“I was waiting for news from this boy, what we had seen was not normal. He seemed so strong to me… The feeling I had when I saw the boy fall was that he was already dead.. The image was very shocking,” he described. The next day, this man read in the press that the victim had died due to a collision, something that, according to him, was “impossible” according to what he had seen, which is why who called the Civil Guard and recounted his experience.
Now, the defense of the accused argues in the trial that the victim voluntarily jumped out of the moving vehicle. Once the statements are over, the process will continue on Monday.