Finally sentenced to 95 years in prison, the accused of murdering three people in less than an hour in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona on January 20, 2020. The judge of the Court of Barcelona also imposes compensation of between 50,000 and 300,000 euros to the relatives of the victims, which overall amounts to 1.2 million euros.
The courtroom has handed down a sentence this Tuesday in response to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, and after the people’s court declared the defendant guilty unanimously last week. The sentence coincides with the jury and does not appreciate any mitigation for mental disorders or drug addiction. On the contrary, it does consider the aggravating factors of cruelty and murder with abuse of superiority.
The popular jury considered it proven that the defendant, Joan Musetescu, a Swedish national, perpetrated the three crimes in less than an hour, between three and four in the afternoon of that day, taking the lives of a woman and two men, among them, that of the municipal worker of the Barcelona city council and journalist David Caminada.
The prosecutor claimed 95 years in prison for three crimes of murder, in addition to a crime of arson, three for robbery with violence, another for attempted robbery with intimidation and threats, and injury.
On January 20, 2020, the defendant entered a man’s apartment around three in the afternoon and, for no known reason, murdered him by stabbing him 249 times before slitting his throat and suffocating him with a bag tied to his head. After that, he set the apartment on fire in order to erase his tracks and tracks, which caused the eviction of the residents of the property, thus putting their lives at risk.
Later, he climbed down through the window of that building to the street, and killed a 66-year-old woman who was coming out of a nearby doorway, hitting her head against the wall of the same with “great brutality,” according to the jury’s verdict.
Immediately afterwards, he stole a motorcycle from a delivery man, tried to rob a store with a large knife and, finally, on this bloody journey, he moved to Plaza Sant Jaume, where he fatally stabbed his last victim, a municipal employee, twice. who was leaving work and injured a colleague of the deceased.
In their verdict, the jury argued that there are “multiple indications” that point to the defendant as the author of the three murders. The jury also stressed that the defendant perpetrated the first of his crimes with “unnecessary suffering” for the victim, since “he was merciless” with her, while in the second of the murders, that of the woman, there was a “great brutality”, as evidenced by the blows received.
Also that the defendant had the intention in both cases to end the lives of his victims, who could not defend themselves at any time. He based his conviction on the different evidence provided in the trial, such as the statements of the testimonies or the images recorded by a witness or by the security cameras of hotels or businesses in the area.
