The First section of the Castellón Court has sentenced an 18-year-old to sentences totaling ten and a half years in prison for kidnapping, brutally assaulting and robbing a man and broadcasting it live on the Instagram social network.
The Valencian Superior Court of Justice (TSJCV) has reported this Thursday that the events occurred in the town of Burriana (Castellón) in 2020 and together with the now convicted two other minors participated, already tried and convicted in that jurisdiction.
The trial was held on May 16 and the sentence reproduces the crimes and penalties included in its final conclusions by the Public Prosecutor, to which both the private prosecution and the defense attorney adhered, adds the TSJCV.
As recounted in the resolution, the convicted man, 18 years old, and two minors approached the victim, 31, around 11:00 p.m. at the door of his home in Benicarló with the excuse of asking for a cigarette.
Next, they sneaked into the house, tied him to a chair with duct tape and searched the house until they found a bank statement, for which they began to threaten him so that he would accompany them to an ATM to withdraw money.
As the victim resisted, they began to beat him all over his body with the mechanical arm of an industrial iron mixer, a spanner, a metal pipe, and several wooden sticks. This situation lasted for a good part of the morning.
The attackers broadcast their actions through an Instagram profile and the images were viewed by other young people on the same social network, who alerted the security forces.
The Civil Guard mounted an operation that culminated around 4:00 p.m. the following afternoon, on December 20, once they had located the house where the events were taking place.
The agents arrested the three suspects when they were leaving the house to go to the cashier of a bank to extract money with the card of the injured party, who remained inside his home and was later released.
The Court of Castellón has sentenced the defendant to four years in prison for a crime of illegal detention and three and a half years for a crime of injuries, since the victim was hospitalized for four days and has several scars on his face as a result of the beatings received.
In addition, the magistrates impose another two and a half years in prison for the crime of robbery with violence and a fine for a crime of damage, for the damage caused to the home of the victim.
They also sentence him to six months in prison for a crime against moral integrity derived from the retransmission on the Internet of the violent treatment they subjected to the affected person.
The Court does not rule on a possible compensation as the injured party has reserved the actions that may be exercised by these facts in the civil jurisdiction. The sentence is not final and can be appealed before the TSJCV.
