“Nothing had changed at home”, except for the arrival of this person into the family. This is how one of the daughters of the 78-year-old man who died in the arson attack on a house in ses Païsses in the early hours of 3 August 2023 described the situation on Tuesday before the judge and the popular jury. She was referring to the woman accused of the events, whom the family had met only a month earlier.
On this second day of the trial, held at the Provincial Court in Palma, the daughter was visibly moved several times as she recalled what happened in those weeks. She spoke of the human tragedy and the condition of the house after the blaze. “All our memories were lying in the back yard, it was like a mountain. The ceilings and walls were cracked, and we restored the house to make it look like a home again. It was as if a bomb had exploded. It was brutal”.
She did not live in that property, but her parents did, along with another caregiver who had begun working as a live-in aide on 1 August. That is the scene she encountered when she was finally able to enter the house.
The woman accused of setting the fire, now 63, has been in provisional detention for more than two years, charged with murder with malice aforethought against a particularly vulnerable person due to illness and disability, as well as arson. On 13 August 2023, the duty judge ordered her to be remanded without bail. The prosecution is seeking permanent reviewable imprisonment and substantial compensation.
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