The investigating judge sees indications that the twin police officers from Ourense killed their partner after stealing weapons

He considers that the brothers suspected that he would give them away and decided to shoot him dead and pretend that it was a suicide

OURENSE, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The magistrate of the Investigating Court number 3 of Ourense considers that there are indications to conclude that the two National Police officers twins in Ourense shot their partner to the head for fear that he would give them away for the theft of weapons in the bunker of the Ourense police station and, later, they modified the crime scene to make it look like a suicide.

This has been determined in the order that concludes the investigation into the theft of weapons and the death in April 2016 of an agent from the Ourense National Police station. Regarding this case, the Prosecutor's Office had requested the dismissal on several occasions, considering that it was a suicide. Now, after seven years of instruction, the judge orders the transformation of the proceedings into a procedure to be tried by a popular jury.

For the judge, the investigated brothers could be the perpetrators of a crime of murder or manslaughter and of a robbery with force according to the practical proceedings, from which "indications emerge" that both agents "jointly and planned" stole six guns from inside the bunker at the police station.

When they were being investigated for this and "with the aim of achieving impunity", the magistrate continues, "they used one of them to shoot their partner in the head", to which they attributed the sending of anonymous letters to the police station and also the removal of weapons from the bunker.

In addition, the order states that the victim and the two investigated, who performed important functions at the police station, maintained a friendly relationship and shared their love of shooting.

The 'status' of those investigated changed with the arrival of a new commissioner and they "saw themselves displaced" by other police colleagues. In fact, the twins were transferred from their job and deprived of the use of the shooting gallery.

The magistrate stated that the two brothers "felt professionally undermined" and, seeing themselves deprived of all this, "tried to harm" both the colleagues with whom they had "professional rivalry" and the police commanders responsible for "withdrawing part of them" of their functions. For his part, the deceased "wanted to improve in his profession" seeking the position of gunsmith at the police station.

To achieve their objective, the judge continues, the two brothers "hatched up a plan that the deceased knew about" with which they "created false traces of access to confidential data with passwords from other police officers to harm the owners" and, in addition, "they accessed the unauthorized bunker to take six weapons and sent anonymous letters to the Internal Affairs unit. All this was attributed by the twins to "other police officers."

However, it stresses that the investigation initiated in April 2016 pointed to the two brothers as the perpetrators of the thefts and the anonymous, who, "afraid that their partner would end up confessing, prepared his death."

In this way, he believes that "to avoid the investigation" they decided to "simulate a suicide." Thus, he maintains that they killed his partner with a single shot and placed the weapon on the hand of the deceased, thus manipulating the crime scene.

Specifically, the instructor states that there are indications that on April 9, 2016, between 3:55 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., one of the two brothers fired a single shot at the head of the victim, who "died immediately in an office on the fifth floor of the police station".

Meanwhile, his brother, who had taken him to the police station, was waiting in his car for his twin to the National Police facilities.

In addition, the investigating judge continues, those investigated sent an email from the victim's email in which he confessed to being the author of the anonymous letters and the theft of the weapons to "make the authorities believe that his partner had decided to end his own life for feeling guilty about what happened".

The head of the Court lists among the "basic facts and of singular accrediting power" the finding of DNA of those investigated on the paper with gunpowder that was located under the lifeless body of the agent.

It also points out that the gunpowder found under the corpse and in the sweater the deceased was wearing is "identical" to that found inside a cartridge located in the lockers of the two brothers.

Likewise, it underlines the existence of specific gunshot residue on the paper located under the victim's body and on the back of his sweater, "in a quantity greater than that corresponding to one shot."

In the resolution, it also explains that the blood spatter stains in the vicinity of the extremities of the deceased "also support the intervention of a third person", "as do the expert reports".

"There are multiple and unequivocal indications obtained in the practiced instruction, although with not a few difficulties, since the simulation itself, in its case voluntarily sought, has made finding evidence extraordinarily difficult," concludes the headline.

After knowing the decision of the investigator of the case, the Unified Police Union, person in the case, wanted to praise "the exhaustive and demanding work of the UDEV" of the Ourense police station and has valued "the determination" of the judge, who "It will make it possible to prosecute what happened at police stations on the afternoon of April 9, 2016."

Through a statement, the union highlights that the SUP lawyer, Jorge Álvarez, person in the case, "has once again defended the good name of the National Police" and the "clarification of the facts", "as well as the interests of the personnel affiliated with the SUP".