The salesperson for a security company leaves and returns with more papers as we speak. The janitor of the residential building who on the 13th found the neighbor on the floor of the garage ramp who had just received half a dozen silent shots, assures that there is fear among the residents. That is why they are taking security measures that arrive late for whom Russian and Ukrainian sources have identified as Maxim Kuzminov, the Russian pilot who defected in a helicopter to Ukraine in exchange for half a million dollars and a new life.
The employee was on the second floor of the garage when the events occurred. He knew the murdered man by sight and from a brief conversation he had with him, when in broken Spanish he asked him where to throw some rubble. “They were doing some renovation.” In plural? He says it because he once saw him with another man, older than him.
He claims that he did not hear gunshots, only a car that was going up the ramp quickly (which was later found burned out in El Campello, about 25 kilometers away) but not in a way that caused any alarm. When he went up and saw the young man on the ground, another neighbor had just arrived in his car, but they both thought that the man had fallen or had been run over. “I called the emergency room, but when I got closer I realized he was dead,” he tells us.
Then the Local Police of La Vila Joiosa arrived; There is a barracks a few meters away, near the cove, whose sandy area belongs to Finestrat, we are close to Benidorm, much closer to the city of skyscrapers than to the famous colorful houses of La Vila, whose center is about six kilometers away. from here.
After the Local, the Civil Guard arrived, and an ambulance. When they opened the vest or jacket that the victim was wearing, they found that “he had a shot in the heart, another in the side, under the arm, and another in the stomach,” according to the witness, who heard those present say that there had been received “at least five shots.”
“Until now there was no security here,” confirms the concierge, who started working in December, despite the fact that to enter the complex you have to dial a numerical code. And next to the instructions sign, which is in Spanish, English and Russian, it is announced that there are surveillance cameras.
“There are many here, Russians and Ukrainians, we don’t distinguish them,” he points out, “but until now everything was very calm and no one worried if the door was left open; some who are doing construction work and come and go put a stone so they don’t have to to keep calling”. Now, the neighbors who come and go do not want to talk about it. “Some don’t even want to go down to the garage,” says the janitor.
