The Provincial Court of Teruel has sentenced a young man to three years in prison as the perpetrator of attempted murder for attacking another with a knife during a discussion on a street in the capital of Teruel, although the sentence establishes that the prison sentence be replaced by the expulsion of this person, a Colombian national, from Spanish territory for six years.
In addition, since the victim had to be hospitalized due to the injuries suffered, the convicted person must compensate him with 7,228.32 euros and the Aragonese Health Service with 2,827.37 euros, both amounts with the corresponding legal interest, plus payment of the costs of the trial..
The judgment considers as proven facts that at around 6:30 a.m. on December 8, 2022, the defendant, now 23 years old, was as co-driver in a vehicle driven by a friend, in the city of Teruel, and upon reaching a narrow point on the road, brushed the rear-view mirror against a pedestrian, Mohamed F., who was walking down the street, who reacted by hitting the car with his hand..
For this reason, the driver stopped the car, getting out of the defendant, who, annoyed by the reaction that the pedestrian had had, got into an argument and a fight with him..
Despite the fact that his friend and driver got him to return to the vehicle and they left the place, a few meters later they decided to return, and waited with the passenger window down for Mohamed to arrive, who approached the vehicle and through the window hit the defendant on the head, who, for his part, stabbed him in the chest with a bladed weapon that he was carrying in his hand ready for use..
Mohamed hit the defendant on the head again and he responded again with another attack with a knife, although the addressee managed to dodge it, although due to the open incised wound received in the chest, a short distance from the aorta vein, with life-threatening, he had to be transferred to the hospital, where he required medical treatment with emergency surgery, injuries that healed in 32 days, with seven serious and 25 moderate personal damage, in addition to suffering aesthetic sequelae.
Hours later, and before the procedure and police action had identified the author, he appeared to confess the fact before a police officer, as a result of which the procedure was directed against him.. Likewise, it has consigned 3,000 euros to attend civil responsibilities.
For this fact, he is considered the author of an attempted murder crime, with the concurrence of mitigating circumstances modifying the criminal responsibility of confession and damage repair..