The defense of two accused of murdering a German tourist who two years ago was hit by a car on the highway from Llucmajor to Palma, in Majorcaafter falling from a moving van, has alleged that The victim jumped out of the vehicle due to his intoxication.
This Wednesday, the Palma Court began the jury trial against the two accused of put the 20-year-old young man in a van and throw him on the MA-19 highwaywhere he was hit by a car that could not avoid him. The Prosecutor’s Office requests 25 years in prison for each of them for the crime of murder, as well as the payment of compensation of 172,800 euros for the victim’s parents and 24,700 euros for the sister of the deceased.
The victim died from being hit by a car
The two accused, as the prosecutor reported at the beginning of the session, put the young man into the van when He was walking drunk through the leisure area of ​​Playa de Palma. A short time later he was thrown onto the highway with the vehicle running.
“He couldn’t defend himself; They knew perfectly well that it was a highway with a lot of traffic. and that throwing it meant his death,” the prosecutor explained to the members of the jury, while insisting on the malicious intent of what happened on the night of October 8, 2022. “The family knew that the victim was on vacation in Mallorca and now he has a corpse,” he lamented.
The prosecution lawyer on behalf of the deceased’s relatives has maintained that the tourist’s death was not accidental and has denied that the alleged perpetrators wanted to accompany the victim to her hotel, since they drove the van in the opposite direction to the establishment.
For its part, the defense of one of those accused of murder, who has requested the acquittal of his client, has defended that The victim died due to the blow he suffered when he was run over. for a car. “No one attacked him and no one hit him,” he stated.
The lawyer of another of the accused has taken the same line, who He has rejected that his client and the other accused kidnapped the tourist and they will push him from the moving vehicle to end his life. The victim, he has argued, opened the door and jumped in. “They saw him get up and calmly went to work,” he noted.
Hit by a driver
National Police investigators They checked 100,000 van license plates to locate the vehicle from which the young man was allegedly thrown and they compared more than 10 million vehicle license plates, after learning from two witnesses that what happened was not the result of a traffic accident.
A civil guard who took charge of what seemed like an accident on the MA-19 has told the jury that The young man was hit by a driver who could not avoid him at a point on the road with poor lighting.
Another of the agents has referred in his statement to the story given by two witnesses, who claimed to have seen a white van driving at low speed on the shoulder when the left side door opened and they saw arms throwing a body. “They had the feeling that the body was inert,” he commented on the account of some witnesses. The trial for these events will continue this Thursday starting at 9:30 a.m.