He was left without work or income. Her ex-partner cut off her electricity and water and took her car. She felt permanently in danger. And every morning, before taking her daughter to school, she made sure there wasn’t a tiger or a lion prowling around her home. She was not paranoid: her former romantic partner had exotic animals, those felines among them, on the farm where she lived. Since Manuel Alonso ended his relationship with Lucía Garrido, the woman’s life became a real hell. Even though the judge granted her the family home, “he told her that she had to leave the house by hook or by crook, or else she would come out in a garbage bag,” the judge reported this Wednesday. daughter of both, Sara, who believes that her father had a hand in her mother’s death. This is what she has stated in the trial that she is trying to clarify for the perpetrators of the death of Lucía Garrido, murdered in the spring of 2008 on the Los Naranjos farm, her home in Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga). In the case, marked by police corruption, there are two accused: his ex-partner, Alonso, is considered the intellectual author of the crime; Ángel Vaello as the alleged material executor, for whom 25 and 23 years in prison are requested.
The trial is being held for the second time, after in 2019 — when these two defendants were acquitted, like two other Civil Guard agents who were also tried at the time with the same result — that the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia ordered a repeat trial. irregularities. Now, during the third session, two testimonies have served to relate the situation that Garrido was experiencing before his death, as they already told four years ago. His daughter, who has testified behind a screen so as not to have to see his father and that she was 12 years old when the events occurred, has explained that despite her age she knew what was happening.
“Two weeks before his death he told my aunt Rosa that if anything happened to her, she should stay with me. She sat me down to tell me: get ready, anything can happen,” said the young woman, who explained that her mother lost more than 20 kilos from the separation to her murder: “She was very, very scared “. Also, days before the crime, his father locked up the farm’s guard dogs that gave them peace of mind and stopped feeding the wild animals, so they made a lot of noise every night, which is why in the mornings they watched to see if anyone had left a open cage and they had escaped hungry. “Every day I looked at the car, the underbody, that there were no loose animals, like a victim of ETA,” said Lucía’s sister, Rosa, in 2019, now deceased and whose statement has been projected in the courtroom for the popular jury to see. would listen.
The daughter also criticized this Wednesday that neither the command nor the social services of the Alhaurín de la Torre City Council took her complaints of mistreatment and threats made by her mother seriously: “They didn’t believe her.” “They didn’t take notes and were of no use. He was protected by the Civil Guard,” insisted a neighbor and close friend of Lucía, who accompanied the victim to file those complaints and who helped Lucía on numerous occasions during the months before her death: “Then it was no longer her. ”. “She was a shadow, a skeleton, psychologically she was destroyed. She didn’t eat because she gave everything to her daughter, who for her was the most important thing. “She was in a horrible state,” noted, who has acknowledged that Alonso put “a lot of pressure” on Lucía to leave there and that “if she didn’t get out the right way it would be the hard way, even feet first.”
The friend explained that the reason Alonso wanted to kick her out of the house was because “her presence was going to get in the way” because “Lucía knew too much” about “illicit businesses,” among which she cited illegal hunting, the sale on repeated occasions of exotic animals that were then seized by the Civil Guard to be returned to the warehouse and sold again or the existence of bales stored in the facilities. “I saw bundles,” she stressed. When she observed them she asked Lucía about them, but she did not answer. “I wanted to protect myself,” her neighbor said, that after the crime she felt in danger and her movements were monitored, so she ended up leaving her house and returning to her country of origin. , Norway. This Wednesday she declared from the Spanish Embassy in Oslo.
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Hashish nursery
A Civil Guard general has also testified, explaining that during the investigation the “hypothesis” gained strength. [de que en] That property would store drugs, something that until that moment in the investigation had not appeared as a motive for the death,” said the civil guard, who then served as head of Internal Affairs of the armed institute. He explained that when they carried out DNA tests on the remains of the case in 2016, with new techniques more advanced than eight years before, they obtained a positive that corresponded to Vaello, who was arrested. The police official recalled that within the same case they also investigated the so-called crime of the Colombians – when in 2009 Alonso killed two people who attacked his house. He did it, he assured, in legitimate defense and was acquitted for it—and that two other violent deaths are related to the case, those of two witnesses.
Given the possibility that another witness had the same purpose, the judicial authority considered him a protected witness and granted him a new identity. This Wednesday he testified by videoconference from an unknown location and without the possibility of being seen by the accused. He has narrated that he was dedicated to “stealing hashish from drug traffickers” and that he met in Torremolinos with several compatriots and agents of the Civil Guard (“they gave us information and security to transport the hashish”) to plan two hits: one in Madrid and the other on the Los Naranjos farm. There they were told that there would be 4,000 kilos of hashish and “a lot of money” in cash, which he estimated “between four and six million euros.” He says that both he and some members of the group withdrew from that attack because in subsequent meetings there was talk “of removing a person from the way” and they did not want to have anything to do with injuries or deaths. And that when he saw Lucía’s death on the news, a colleague—one of those murdered later—told him: “Things went wrong for these shits,” pointing out that Vaello, whom he recognized when he saw him on the street, screen, was between them. He has assured that Alonso does not know him.
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