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The key statements of the three forensic doctors of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Zaragoza (IMLA) who performed the autopsy on the corpse of Víctor Laínez and who also examined the injuries that Rodrigo Lanza had in the hands after the aggression were done behind closed doors. request of the defense lawyer.
The specialists were initiating their intervention, showing the jury a recreation of the wounds that the victim had suffered and images of the autopsy, when the lawyer Endika Zulueta has interrupted the session and has asked for "unnecessary and morbid" that the hearing is not open , request that the president of the court has agreed after consulting with the jury.
The testimony of the experts was expected to shed light on which version fits what really happened: how exactly the coup that caused the death of Víctor Laínez occurred and how it was beaten. The accusations maintain that Laínez died as a result of a blow that Lanza gave him from behind, specifically behind the right ear, with a blunt object. The defense argues that it was the fall to the ground that caused death.
Juan Carlos Macarrón , the lawyer representing the family, is the only one who has transferred the contents of the forensic declaration to the media, which has lasted for more than two hours. He has assured that the experts have been "forceful" and that they have endorsed the thesis of the accusation. "They have insisted that we are facing a subsequent blow to the ear, which had to be produced from behind with a blunt and elongated object - that is to say without edges -, which fractured the skull on two sides, one vertical and one more or less horizontal , and that caused the slow fall of Victor, "he said.
"Forensics have also ruled out that the coup occurred as a result of the fall, for a simple reason that they have repeatedly explained, and that is when a person is hit in a lateral fall, in a blow to the head, the first that are the shoulders ", he added, before insisting that the experts of lMLA have declared that Lanza had to use a blunt object.
"The injuries to Rodrigo Lanza's hands" are not compatible, explained the lawyer of the accusation, with which he would have had if he had not used any object to hit Laínez.
In the report that forensics made on the injuries that Lanza presented, which they examined on December 14, 2017, six days after the facts, they concluded the following about the injuries he had in his right hand - the only one he had affected - specifically in the knuckles: "The intensity of the injuries observed in the right hand are not compatible in intensity with the necessary dynamic forces that are required to cause the injuries proven in the deceased."
"Sunken nasal pyramid"
Regarding the autopsy of the victim, in the final report that they sent to the court they indicated that the fundamental cause of death had been "a severe craniocerebral trauma with cardiorespiratory arrest" compatible "with a strong intensity contusion in the right tempoparietal region", that is, behind the ear, without specifying with what it could have occurred.
The body of Víctor Laínez also presented numerous injuries to the face. "He had a wound sutured on the back of his nose, with sinking of the nasal pyramid," one of the coroners was explaining to the jury just before the hearing passed behind closed doors. "That is, the tip of the nose is respected but everything that is the back of the nose, the nasal pyramid, is sunk," he said.
Before the coroners, in the third session of the trial they have declared the police officers who carried out the eye inspection of the record player after the events and have explained that they did not find any knife around where Laínez fell badly wounded - the defense maintains that Lanza He was attacked with a knife.
Several friends and acquaintances of Lanza have also passed through the court who agreed with him that night - who have testified that the defendant consumed enough alcohol that night - and the particular psychologist who treats him. "In plain words he is a good person, he is a sensitive person especially in the affective," he said when the defense asked him about Rodrigo Lanza's personality.
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