“Not like it usually happens in Spain, they put 3,000 years (in jail) and at 20 they are on the street,” laments Cristina Garrido, who asks the judges to be “consistent”
Cristina Garrido, mother of the Spanish engineer Juan Alberto González Garrido, who was murdered in the attacks on November 13, 2015 at the Bataclan concert hall, asked the Paris Court that the penalties they impose on the terrorists and their accomplices “are fully complied with in the jail. “No, as it usually happens in Spain, they put 3,000 years (in jail) and at 20 they are on the street,” said Garrido in brief statements to the Spanish press this Wednesday at the exit of the hearing.
«Condemnation will not return me to my old life. No, because I don’t have Juan Alberto. I hope that justice is consistent with the crimes that have been committed. The 131 victims who have died, all the consequences it has left, the people it has left psychologically affected and all the families that have left us devastated, “added this mother of one of the 90 victims of Bataclan.
Juan Alberto, 29, was an expert engineer in nuclear energy. He had been working since January 2009 for the French company Électricité de France (EDF). On November 13, 2015, he went to a concert by the American group Eagles of Death Metal with his wife, whom he had married four months earlier. She managed to escape unscathed from the concert hall, but she did so without Juan Alberto, who did not hear from him again until his death was confirmed.
Almost six years after the series of attacks on November 13, 2015 that turned the streets of Paris into a scene of war and the Bataclan room into a large morgue, Cristina Garrido traveled to the French capital to testify at the trial.
Get to know your child
The objective of his testimony was twofold: on the one hand, to speak in the audience of Juan Alberto, for those who did not know him in life could know him a little, and to address the terrorists directly to the defendants who sit in the dock. accused.
«Testifying has allowed me to get to know Juan Alberto, who was my goal, to get to know him a little. He was a person who liked life, an active, dynamic, loving person, a friend of his friends … that’s the only thing that allows me to continue, and the support of my daughter, who is the one that pulls me “, explained Garrido, accompanied by her daughter Cristina. «To testify is for me to spread what Juan Alberto was like. As long as he talks about him, he’s still alive, ”added this mother.
Throughout his 53-minute testimony, Garrido addressed the 14 defendants directly and expressed his “strong condemnation of the perpetrators of the attack and their accomplices.” Among the accused, only one of them was directly involved in the attacks, Salam Abdeslam. The rest were killed by the police or were blown up by exploding their explosive vests.
«I hope that every day you bear in your conscience all the pain that you have caused us to the victims. You are delusional if you think you are brave. You are just cowards. You murdered Juan Alberto from behind, without defense, “Garrido told the defendants. Without weapons you are nothing. You don’t deserve my respect. As long as I live I will not forgive the perpetrators or the accomplices, “she added, visibly moved.
Without protection
The mother of the murdered Spaniard trusts that the trial will clarify, among other things, the reasons why the Bataclan room was not more protected if it had received terrorist threats, why people booked for radicalization are not followed closer and if they are they should establish responsibilities between the French authorities.
Garrido has some questions that he probably won’t have any answers for. Did Juan Alberto die on the spot after being shot in the back? Did he suffer or did he not suffer? He also wonders if he could have endangered his son by calling his mobile to try to locate him in the Bataclan, since some witnesses have explained that the ringing of the telephones drew the attention of the terrorists.
Traveling to Paris and listening to the testimonies of the victims and other relatives who lost a loved one in the attacks has allowed Cristina Garrido to feel more accompanied. “Those of us who are parents talk about our feelings as parents and the loss we have” because “you feel the same pain.”
He explains that, six years after the death of Juan Alberto, many people tell him: «You will see how time heals everything. But there are things that time will never heal because when Mother’s Day arrives, Christmas Day, Kings Day, I always miss him. Time does not heal certain things, you have to get used to that, but heal, heal, it does not heal you … “, said Garrido, mother of one of the 90 people killed in the Bataclan.
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