Andrés V.F., a.k.a. Capi, from Pontevedra, known for having assaulted Rajoy in 2015. Mariano Rajoy at Pontevedraasks for the application of the complete exoneration of psychic alteration in order not to go to prison. for the attempt to murder of a journalist in 2023.
The fourth section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has left this trial, which has been held throughout the morning of Thursday, ready for sentencing. The defendant has only responded to the questions of his lawyer and has assured that his intention was not to kill the editor, whom he did not know at all, but his action was directed “against the press in general” because of what he considers to be media harassment suffered since the episode with the former president of the Government. “I wanted to be left alone with the publications. I wanted to dissuade journalists and make myself respected,” he said.
The defense is requesting that the defendant be sentenced to a complete exoneration for psychic alteration. or, alternatively, a crime of aggravated injury with incomplete exoneration for mental alteration. In any case, he requests his admission to a specialized psychiatric center.
“I didn’t want to hurt anyone.”
“I had no intention, I didn’t mean to hurt anyone“The young man added that, as he recalled, he has been under psychiatric treatment for many years and that both the day of the aggression and the day before, he insisted, he had consumed cocaine y alcohol. According to his account, when he entered the facilities at La Voz de Galicia on July 14, 2023, he told a clerk that he was the one who “hit Rajoy” and, immediately afterwards, he began “to break everything, computers, screens”. She ran away.
The accused has indicated that later a journalist who was in the newsroom appeared and “pounced on him and then ran away,” he said. In addition, he admitted that hit him with a rolling pin but he maintains that it was the journalist who approached him to snatch the knife. He has also said that he does not remember well the moment of the arrest by the police officers.
In turn, the young man has stated that before the attack he had previously gone to the delegation of the Diario de Pontevedra, since it is close to his home, and that it was around 1:40 p.m. when he went to La Voz de Galicia. “I was very frustrated because I’ve been suffering media harassment for years,” he said, adding that he lost “his mind”.
The defendant has shown very nervous in the courtroom and it was even necessary to interrupt the trial for several minutes. The prosecutor claims that he is the author of a crime of attempted murderfor which he requests eight years in prison, seven years of probation and ten years of prohibition to approach and communicate with his victim.
In addition, he is charged with a crime of damage for having smashed ten computer monitors and a television set valued at 2,221 euros for which he is asked to pay a fine of 1,690 euros and a further offence of resistance for resisting arrest by the National Police for which he is requesting 4,140 euros. In the arrest, one officer was injured.
The defendant’s mother has also requested that her son be admitted to a psychiatric center: “I want him to be cured. He is 26 years old, something can still be donebut if he does not enter a center, nothing can be done”. Likewise, the lawyers for the private prosecution, who are La Voz de Galicia and the injured police officer coincide in pointing out the concurrence of an incomplete exonerating circumstance.
For his part, the victim testified, protected behind a screen, and explained that on that day he was at the back of the newsroom when she heard “a roar”. which he interpreted as someone falling down the stairs. He saw his partner run out and ran into the assailant, who started attacking him.
“First he raised a stick,” – which turned out to be a rolling pin – “I covered myself with my arm, stepped back and saw him pull a knife from his waistband,” she has recalled. Immediately, according to the victim’s account, the defendant pulled out a kitchen knife, approximately 18 centimeters long, and threw repeated stab wounds striking him on one occasion in the thorax, hands and arm.
“The image I have is like the one in the movie. Psychosis“He was “pointing the knife anywhere” until, at one point, “he took a step back, I saw a hole and I saw a hole and I ran away“. Blood tests ruled out that the defendant had used cocaine on the day of the events. The forensic experts spoke of “dissocial disorder” and harmful polytoxic use and specified that has “problems in the capacity of impulse control“.
Criminal record
This attack on the journalist took place in the same week in which the defendant was convicted with his acquittal in Criminal Court 1 of Ourense for an altercation in a bar in December 2020. He punched a man in the head and said “you’re all going to die.” after he was asked to leave the premises for saying slogans. in favor of ETA.
This young man’s criminal record also shows that in 2019, an out-of-court settlement that saw him acquitted of a misdemeanor for minor injuries for having assaulted the provincial coordinator of Vox in Pontevedra, Juan Manuel Rosales, in March of that year. On the day of the trial, he met his victim in court, acknowledged what he had done and asked for forgiveness. When the accused assaulted Rajoy he was a minor and was sentenced to two years of internment in a closed juvenile detention center, which he served entirely in Monte Ledo (Ourense).