Whether the case is resolved or not, it cannot be denied that the magistrate, Juan Díaz Villar, is doing everything possible to find the culprit in the death of Helena Jubany, the 27-year-old librarian who was drugged and thrown into the void by the patio of a building in Sabadell in December 2001. After the DNA samples found in some of the victim’s clothes did not match those of the two investigated, now the judge accepts, against the discretion of the Prosecutor’s Office , a new request made by the family: jointly compare the genetic profiles of both investigated mixed. “That the report prepared by the Judicial Police unit be complemented, in the sense that the comparison of the doubtful and doubtful samples is carried out, including in the comparison the data of the genetic material of the two investigated.”
In July 2022, the Police laboratory found an “inconclusive mixture of at least two people” in the sweater the victim was wearing on the day of the crime. However, after comparing these samples with the genetic profile of the two investigated, Santi Laiglesia and Xavi Jiménez – both of Jubany’s colleagues in the Unión Excursionista – the result was negative. In addition, the magistrate agrees to review whether the genetic profile of another woman other than the deceased herself could be found. The Jubany family, who is the one who requested this test, wants to determine the possible relationship of Ana Echaguibel with the crime, which was already investigated in 2002 for a calligraphic analysis that pointed to her as the author of one of the anonymous letters that Jubany received before the crime. .
On the other hand, the judge has rejected the request that the family had made for the investigation to pass into the hands of the Mossos d’Esquadra. The magistrate considers that there are no serious circumstances” that justify a change of police force. He recalls that the family requested it four times in 2021 without appealing the decision. He also highlights that there is no record that the Mossos have offered to investigate this case. “The duty of cooperation, coordination and mutual collaboration between police forces implies that, if one or the other body considers it necessary to create a support unit or articulate any kind of cooperation between police forces, the aforementioned precepts could be used, without the need for that the Court agrees to the modification of the investigating unit and the creation of a joint unit”.
