A victim of a problem that he himself defines as “adrenaline addiction”. “I have been a thief, but I have not robbed any poor person”. This is how the eldest of the Cazorla brothers, J.C.V., accused of instigating the fire at the courts of Ibiza in January 2019, finished his plea before the judge on Tuesday. He acknowledged a troubled past, but denied his involvement in this case and attributed his involvement to police harassment.
In his speech he also referred to the other fire he was involved in, which killed a woman trapped in a squat in es Viver. If in this other case he admitted that he could have caused the fire with a cigarette butt, it was to reduce his sentence to seven and a half years in prison, he justified. Likewise, the steps for reintegration that he claims to have tried would have been damaged by the reports in ‘Equipo de Investigación’, ‘El programa de Ana Rosa’ and all the press that echoed the spectacular blows that are attributed to the brothers or their collaborations with thieves and burglars of the Peninsula.
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The cases that J.C.V. had pending were in the courts of instruction number 1 and number 2 of Ibiza. In these two offices, in the early morning of January 29th, four fires broke out, which devastated all the documentation and paralyzed judicial activity for months.
Destroying the archives with fire
In this Tuesday’s sessions in the Criminal Court number 1 of Ibiza, the second and final before learning the sentence, both the conclusions of the public prosecutor, who asks for sentences of four years and ten months, as well as the State Attorney have accused J.C.V. of destroying these files to hinder the action of justice.
For this, according to these conclusions, he resorted to F.F.F., a polydrug addict who was also charged for his alleged collaboration in surveillance work in the fire of es Viver. Last September, F.F.F. was acquitted of his participation in this second case, although he already spent three years and four months in preventive prison. He is now free of criminal records, awaiting sentencing for setting fire to the courts.
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