The contours of the death of the young legionary Alejandro Jiménez Cruz last April during a shooting practice in Alicante continue to raise many doubts despite the fact that a military court has opened an investigation that holds high charges for the Army. The version of the controls has many loose fringes to judge by the procedures that have been practiced and by the conclusions of the group of Homicides of the Civil Guard of Alicante after an intense investigation.

The judge who instructs the case -Jiménez lost his life after receiving a shot- ordered a reconstruction of the events that took place yesterday and so, early in the morning, all the people who went to the shooting range of Agost (Alicante) They were in the area when Jiménez lost his life.

The official version was that the young man died from the rebound of a bullet. The thesis that has uncovered the investigation is that there could be a lack of protection and the deceased did not carry the necessary elements to guarantee their safety in this type of practice.

Reaching this phase has not been easy due to the alleged attempts of coercion by the company's managers to lower-level workers so that they do not report what really happened. The Civil Guard has also had to work hard . Since the Group of Homicides of Alicante took charge of the investigations, its agents found not few difficulties to be able to investigate the case.

According to sources of the case consulted by this newspaper, the collaboration on the part of the commanders was not entirely abundant and also some hostility was drawn at the time of recounting the circumstances in which the death of the young legionary took place, ascribed to the Third Don Juan of Austria 3rd of the Legion.

The commanders assured, as stated in the summary to which EL MUNDO has had access, that that day Alejandro Jiménez was wearing the corresponding bulletproof vest with ballistic plates, that is to say with metallic protection, and that the bullet slipped through his armpit. However, the report of the Civil Guard investigators in the summary does not follow this line. The dossier determines that if the Majorcan legionnaire had carried those ballistic plates during the shooting exercise he would have survived .

Several testimonials incorporated into the process corroborate this extreme. «These plates are in a warehouse and never used them. As soon as Alejandro's death occurred, they were cleaned and began to be used, ”say police sources consulted by this newspaper.

So far, the 23rd Territorial Military Togado Court of Almeria has investigated 16 people: two officers, a noncommissioned officer and various troop personnel for the death of Alejandro Jiménez Cruz. The procedure was initiated for a possible offense against the effectiveness of the service resulting in the death of Article 77 of the Military Criminal Code, although the extension to other military crimes is not ruled out as the case investigation proceeds.

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