They ask for 18 and a half years in prison for a former councilor accused of throwing his wife off the balcony

The Prosecutor's Office requests 18 and a half years in prison for the former councilor of the Coalition for El Bierzo (CB) in the Ponferrada City Council (León) Pedro Muñoz, accused of throwing his wife, Raquel Díaz, off the balcony of the house they shared and causing injuries that have left her in a wheelchair. In its previous qualifications, the Prosecutor's Office accuses Muñoz of five crimes, although in the case of attempted homicide the mitigation of “regret” is applied since the defendant called the regional emergency service 1-1-2 when the event occurred and placed to the victim in a position of security, since he is a nurse by profession.

In any case, this possible repentance does not reduce the requested prison sentence, but rather increases it by two years, since it speaks of aggravated injuries.. In total, the coroner located 17 injuries on the victim's body after the event. The Prosecutor's Office maintains that Raquel Díaz was the victim of “continuous mistreatment” for which it also recognizes psychological violence, and also accuses Muñoz of a crime of insults and threats for the insults to which the victim was subjected..

In total, to the twelve years in prison for the crime of attempted homicide that Muñoz is accused of, three are added for the habitual violence to which he considers that the victim was subjected from the beginning of the relationship and penalties for the violence psychic and threats. In addition, the Public Ministry requests the removal of the victim for 24 years, without maintaining communication with her by any means, and requests compensation for Raquel Díaz of 1,120,000 euros for civil liability, an amount to which is added the payment of 74,000 euros for the Sacyl health care services and 48,000 euros for the health system of Castilla-La Mancha for the care he received at the Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo.

Among the people who will testify in the future trial, the Prosecutor's Office plans to hear the testimony of Raquel Díaz, who is currently secretly admitted to a residence so that her attacker cannot locate her, since after spending two years in preventive detention, Muñoz is on probation. After learning of the Prosecutor's document, the Bercianas Feminist Association has rushed to call a rally this Tuesday, at nine o'clock at night in the Ponferrada Town Hall square, against that “repentance” that the Public Prosecutor speaks of..

stopped in 2020

Muñoz was arrested on June 1, 2020 by the Civil Guard accused of a crime of sexist violence after his wife was admitted three days earlier, in serious condition, to a hospital in León. In the framework of the open investigation to determine the cause of the injuries suffered by the woman, the Civil Guard took a statement from Muñoz who explained that his wife had suffered a fall in a house in Toreno (León) where they were undergoing the imposed confinement by the coronavirus.

Although the councilor assured that it was an accident, the investigations led to his arrest due to some evidence that called into question his version of events and pointed to an assault and the Investigating Court number 5 of Ponferrada, with jurisdiction over violence against woman, then decreed that Muñoz be admitted to prison without bail for alleged mistreatment of his wife.