The person accused of having caused the death of two people in an accident in 2017 in Usurbil (Gipuzkoa), when he was traveling in the wrong direction on the A-8, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and not 14, as requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, after the jury has ruled out that he was a kamikaze. In this way, the prosecutor’s thesis that the accused was the author of two crimes of homicide with possible intent has been discarded and his sentence greatly reduced.
The defendant maintained in the trial held this week that he was not aware that he was driving in the wrong direction, to which the jury has given credibility. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office considered that the driver, of Moroccan origin, was responsible for a crime against road safety, which the jury has not considered proven, which on the other hand does understand that the defendant is guilty of two crimes of injuries.
The accident took place on the morning of February 11 of that year, when the Opel Astra driven by the accused, in which five other people were traveling, collided at the confluence of the AP-8 with the GI-20, in Usurbil (Gipuzkoa). ), against an ambulance occupied by four travelers, after traveling more than seven kilometers in the opposite direction.
As a result of the impact, a man and a woman who were occupying the back seat of the car died, while the other eight people involved in the accident, including the driver, were injured, two of them seriously.
During the trial, the Public Ministry admitted that the mitigation of undue delays was applied in this case due to the existence of a previous trial held in 2020 that was not concluded when the prosecutor changed his criteria and introduced the crimes of homicide due to possible intent, which He increased the sentences and led to him being tried by a jury on this second occasion.
One of the elements that the jury has considered proven may determine that the sentence handed down by the presiding judge of the court admits undue delays, according to judicial sources.
The defense, which demanded the acquittal of its client, has requested after hearing the verdict that a fine of no more than 12 months be imposed on the accused.
He has also demanded that the retention of the defendant’s passport and the signature every fifteen days in court, which he has been obliged to do since 2017, be lifted.
