The Civil Guard spent a year and a few weeks tracking down those involved in a crime that tiptoed its way into the local black chronicle. In May last year, firefighters from the Provincial Council responded to a fire that broke out in a abandoned house Located next to the A-362 highway, which connects the towns of Los Palacios and Utrera. During the extinguishing attempts, the staff came across a fire semi-calcined body.
The discovery was reported by 112, which typically does not provide data on violent deaths to the media. But the first hypothesis considered is that it was a homeless man who was surprised by one risk of fire when he spent the night in a destroyed building. However, the autopsy as ABC announced a year ago, confirmed that person was not killed by the fire, but had been shot previously. He had two gunshot wounds to the chest.
The Guardia Civil first had to identify the victim to try to reach his killer. As the Benemérita explains in a statement sent this Thursday, “the Criminalistics Service, after applying a technical-scientific process, identify the corpse despite the advanced degree of carbonization due to the use of accelerators. “It has been a challenge for investigators given the lack of available information that could determine the motive for the crime.”
The deceased was a drug addict and his death was related to drugs, although the Guardia Civil clarified that it was not a settlement of scores, but that the fatal attack took place in the context of a violent altercation with the police. drugs as background
The officers' investigation took over a year because those involved in the crime had left the province. They were finally arrested on June 11 in the city of Jaén. “A broad deployment of troops was carried out within the police force, with three house searches linked addresses to the detainees in whom numerous clues to authorship have been found.” A total of six people were arrested, all Spanish citizens, who maintain friendly ties. The Armed Institute also confirms that it is not a clan or organized group.
The officers arrested all the people they believe were directly involved in the events and were hiding them. The victim was shot and then they set the body on fire try to erase numbers. After being brought to trial, two of them, considered material authors of the murder, were sent to pre-trial prison. The Guardia Civil is keeping the investigation open.