The trial for the triple murder of Ciutat Vella has faced the second session this Tuesday with the residents, mossos and firefighters who lived through that tragic day. Most have identified Jon Musetescu as the person they saw fleeing a building and entering a frenzy of violence that claimed the lives of three people. Having identified him is relevant information for the accusations since he denies being the author of the events. Musetescu, who, it is recalled, was arrested with a knife in his hand after killing his third victim, is facing the trial suggesting that he was mistaken for the real perpetrator. He doesn’t even claim that he suffered from a mental illness that rendered him unconscious or that he was drunk or drugged. He just claims it wasn’t him.
Musetescu has been identified “without any doubt” by Guillem M., a worker in the communication department of the Barcelona city council. He has remembered how that fateful January 20, 2020, his partner David Caminada activated the intercom from the street asking for help. Through the camera, Guillem saw a badly injured Caminada with a man behind him wearing a semi-integral helmet. “It looked like he was assaulting or struggling.” Caminada, who was a city council worker, received two stab wounds to the chest and ended up dying two days later. The witness, along with three other colleagues from the Consistory, began to follow the assailant through the surrounding alleyways until they finally caught up with him in Plaça Sant Jaume. From time to time the assailant would turn and brandish the knife to frighten them. When asked if the man who was on the ground with a knife in his hand was David Caminada’s assailant, the witness answered bluntly. “I have no doubt that he was the same person.” And he has stated that he did not show symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol or suffering from any mental illness. “His movements of him were agile and coordinated. I was surprised how he moved the knife. He did it very aggressively. He had three or four people on top of him and he had the ability to keep moving the knife,” he recounted.
They have also identified the defendant as a neighbor on Montcada street who saw how the defendant assaulted a delivery man on a motorcycle at knifepoint. He “threw him off the motorcycle, hit him and left with the motorcycle.” The woman has described him as “a tall person, with a garbage bag in his hand.” Musetescu at that time was fleeing from the fire and the crime that he himself had caused in Portal Nou street, in El Born. He had allegedly stabbed a man 254 times, whom he had suffocated with a bag over his head. Then several neighbors saw him fall off the balcony. From the third floor he jumped to the second. There a neighbor tried to help him but the defendant attacked him. It was at that moment that passers-by and neighbors suspected that this was out of the ordinary. The defendant then went to Arc de Sant Vicenç street where he killed a woman by suffocating her and stole her watch and mobile phone. There were no witnesses to this crime. And finally, he went to Plaça Sant Jaume where he ended the life of the journalist from the City Hall and where he was arrested. He still brandished the knife but continues to deny it was him. The prosecution requests a sentence of 95 years in prison. The accusations, which represent the families of the deceased, ask for reviewable permanent prison.
