Fratricide case set to conclude

Following the selection of jurors and presentation of the case in the courts of Navarra, the evidence is set to conclude today surrounding the murder of a man in Tafalla.

The Prosecutor’s Office is requesting 21 years in prison for CGZ, 46, for murder, because the attack was “stunning” and “did not give the victim, his brother MM, 49, the option to defend himself.” Only the extenuating circumstance of confession applies, since the defendant went to the Regional Police and told them what happened.

The prosecutor states that the two brothers, who lived together, had a “conflictive” relationship. At 5:10 a.m. on June 21, the deceased returned to the apartment, where the defendant was sleeping. The two began an argument in the living room and during it, the defendant, who already denied such an argument, went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife with an eleven-centimetre blade and stabbed his brother fourteen times.

Regarding the defendant’s mental state – he suffers from a dissocial disorder – the prosecutor understands that “it did not prevent him from knowing the relevance of his actions and their consequences.”

The defence asks for acquittal and for the accused to be admitted to a psychiatric centre, believing that his faculties were nullified by a mental disorder and an insurmountable fear. He stressed that saying that the relationship between the two was conflictive was an understatement. “It was explosive,” he said, “and could have killed one person as well as the other.” The facts, he stressed, were influenced by the mental state of his client (“he acted with outburst and stubbornness and insurmountable fear”) and the biographical circumstances of both, with constant mistreatment and humiliation by the victim since he was a child. He denied that it was a murder: “It was a homicide, he did it without will and he did not seek the absence of defence.”

The defendant did not elaborate on details. He recounted abuse in the family, that he only studied up to the 7th grade of EGB and that he had problems with drugs. Regarding his brother – “We lived together because I don’t know how to do anything, he didn’t work and he didn’t want to work either” – he said that he forced him to do martial arts. “He did it to show off in front of people, to humiliate me.” He assured that the victim was an “especially violent” man. “He hit me, I was afraid of him. “He threatened me every now and then, that he was going to strangle me with zip ties, that he was going to kill me when I was asleep… ”

On the night of the events, he stated that he has a sleeping disorder and that it was very hot, that he was sleeping and his brother came and made noise on purpose. “He woke me up, I got up and stabbed him.” That’s how bluntly he recounted what happened. When asked if he reproached his brother for “the bridles,” he responded yes. The lawyer tried to get him to continue with the sequence. But he didn’t get very far. “It was an outburst, I grabbed it (the knife)… and that’s it.” And he didn’t want to continue.

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