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Jesús Tavira - the piece that the Police did not manage to fit into the crime of the widow of former CAM president Vicente Sala after three interrogations and of whom the agents highlight their ability to relate «both with judges and with hit men» - He has sat before the popular jury that values ​​the case and has made it clear that his relationship with Miguel López, the accused of the murder, was only commercial.

"I bought cars and went every Friday," he said after explaining that he is in the business of buying and selling cars because he is the owner of a scrap yard near Novocar, the Sala family dealership where the crime was committed. and of which Miguel was a manager. Tavira, with sullen and primitive forms , has proven to have full time management. I knew where I didn't want to enter. He has insisted that he did not have a personal relationship with the accused despite the fact that, in his proceedings, the Police included him in the “parallel and extra-countable” business that, according to the agents, Miguel had created in Novocar and which he did not realize The Sala family.

Prosecutor José Llor has questioned Tavira about the intense transfer of calls between him and the accused between the months of August and the first days of December 2016, the date on which the crime was committed. A total of 232 communications were cut abruptly when Mari Carmen Martínez appeared dead with two headshots in the business laundry.

He has offered an explanation: " After the crime Novocar went wrong and there was no commercial relationship, so there are no more calls, " he said. Thus, this chapter has been settled on the fifth day of the trial, which, however, deserved an extensive report by the Police , which incorporated it into the final stretch of the training phase after analyzing López's mobile phone and tablet. In that dossier, the agents of the Homicide Group highlighted: "None (called) occurred on dates immediately before (the crime) and especially none on the date after the execution of the crime except for a one-minute call on December 15". And they added: «Regarding the calls with Jesús Tavira, reference should be made to the fact that, as is clear from the statements made by him and Miguel López, their relationship was not too close, and this is not what emerges from the analysis of the flames between them.

However, the police said that after the murder of Mari Carmen Martínez both were in contact through the phone of a Tavira employee, where he " tells Miguel to go to the dealership to talk about some papers ."

The agents noticed Jesus Tavira in the first stages of his research in December 2016 . He was interrogated three times after the crime, the last one after Miguel López was arrested. However, it was left out of the investigation because the suspicions of the investigators did not prosper.

On the day of the murder, he was at the dealership between 5.30 pm and 5.45 pm to, according to him, collect the documentation of a Prosche he had bought. Then he left. " It was getting dark, " he said in his statement. The proceedings also detailed that Tavira phoned Miguel from his son's cell phone three hours after the murder. An extreme that today has clarified its protagonist: « It was the Edgar (sic). My son called because he wanted to go to Malaga that weekend and wanted to rent him (sic) a van ».

Afterwards, he has stopped in the presence of two Maghreb citizens in Novocar on the afternoon of the crime . It was he himself who, with his statements, initially put the Police on the track of these two men, who were totally discarded.

" There were some Moors there and I stayed for a while because I saw Cristina (an employee of the dealership) overwhelmed, " he said. The Maghreb citizens he referred to went that afternoon to Novocar in search of a second-hand car but only had 3,000 euros, which could not materialize any purchase.

When the crime occurred, the police asked him if he knew them and Tavira said no. Today at the trial session, he acknowledged that he did know who they were because that morning they were in his scrapping and that he also knew one of them. His appearance has not reached half an hour. " I'm leaving, I'm working ," he snapped before the magistrate gave him a premise to leave, showing once again the peculiarity of his character.

Although from a very early stage it was disconnected from the investigation, the Police have always had it very present. In fact, one of the agents who took the case extended over his person in his statement to the magistrate who investigated the facts . «A Colombian left from here (from Alicante) to Berlin to execute a person. And at the time he was in Alicante, he had contact with him (with Tavira), ”the policeman explained to the judge to draw the environment in which, according to him, the witness moves. It has not been proven that this Colombian man had a relationship with the crime.

And he continued: «The Colombian was arrested the Monday following the crime. We quote everyone. There were incongruities that did not add up, ”said the policeman. This line of research was immediately ruled out. Upon leaving, Tavira has been elusive with the press for his obsession of not being portrayed.

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