Seville, (EFE) during the maneuvers in which the 21-year-old Alejandro Jiménez Cruz died in March 2019.
In his statement before the military judge at the Second Territorial Military Court, based in Seville, Sergeant Guil Pérez has rejected the sentences that both the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecutions have requested.
He has maintained that the decision to set a “new target” when the exercise ends was improvised and that he received no orders from his superiors to do so.
For the sergeant, the Prosecutor’s Office requests sentences that add up to seven years and five months in prison for a crime against the efficiency of the service, two crimes of abuse of authority and one of obstruction of justice.
A “basic” exercise
The defendant’s defense has also requested that the “nullity of the evidence” presented for “failures in the chain of custody” of the rifle with which the Sergeant shot the legionnaire be declared, a rifle that, according to the lawyers, may have suffered a “alteration” by not presenting all the parts of the same “same serial number”.
In this sense, the defense considers that the evidence “does not meet the conditions of certainty and security to be valid evidence” and that in the reconstruction of the facts, “only what happened on the left side of the firing range was taken into account ” where Alexander died.
The sergeant, 36 years old and belonging to the army since 2007, has pointed out that, prior to carrying out the maneuvers, he did not specify to the four soldiers under his charge in the platoon how the exercise was going to develop, which he has described as as “basic”, since “it is the sergeant who decides when to fire”.
Once they consolidated the position after shooting down the four targets that were located in a merlon that divided the firing range, the accused Sergeant warned of “a new target” with the cry “enemy on the mountain”, something that, he has confessed, he decided to “on the fly” and that it was not an order from the lieutenant in charge of supervising the exercise.
The father claims that the sergeant killed him
Once that second exercise was over, the sergeant maintained that he remained “on his feet” and that he heard fire but did not know “who was shooting.”
Sergeant Guil, who assists the dead soldier in the first instance, has also denied that he pressured the other three soldiers to alter their statements to the Civil Guard.
According to the sergeant, he asks the soldiers to be “short” and give “short answers” given the “harshness” with which the interrogations take place, as he has denounced.
The father of the deceased soldier, Juan José Jiménez, declared to the media during a recess that took place in the session that Sergeant Guil “lies” and that the expert evidence will prove his involvement in the death of his son. EFE
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