• Statement: Juan Cano reinvents himself before the jury
  • Accusation: An alleged hitman: 'the Uco rode it all'
  • Key testimony The protected witness: "Cano charged me with the crime"

The first week of the trial for the crime of Alejandro Ponsoda has revealed details of the intimate life of the murdered mayor - known by all and silenced throughout these years by the media due to its delicacy - which have nothing to do with the circumstances in which his death occurred. Those dentelladas before the jury by the defenses to the private sphere of Ponsoda - with the exposition of his medical history or a tragic episode suffered by his ex-wife - have made clear the option of the lawyers to park the ethics .

Sowing confusion and trying to separate the defendants from a murder that occurred, according to the Prosecutor's Office and the Civil Guard, because of Juan Cano's longing for power, Ponsoda's trusted man and the axis on which the investigation turned, seems fundamental . And the lawyers know it .

In the five sessions that we have in view, all of them have endeavored to delegitimize the work of the Central Operating Unit (Uco) of the Armed Institute presenting it as a group of agents that needed to close Ponsoda's crime after two years without answers and that they grabbed a burning nail. The figure of the protected witness , the architect of the investigation to bear fruit by pointing to Cano as the person who plotted the murder in a brothel in Benidorm , has also been beaten mercilessly.

The lawyers of the seven men who sit on the bench have reminded members of the jury that this witness, goalkeeper of the Mesalina brothel, has a broad criminal record and was even a Civil Guard confidant. The objective is clear: subtract credibility because, you know, that if your testimony falters, the process falls . Literally.

It is true that the only evidence against Cano, the three alleged hitmen, a businessman and the owner and manager of Messalina is the testimony of the witness . In fact, only when he decided to speak could the arrests be practiced, something that happened two years after Ponsoda was shot twice in the head at the door of his house on October 19, 2007.

Since then, he has denounced alleged bribes by the defendants' environment to stop talking and even threats. Juan Cano and his benchmates look at him with disdain. They accuse him of obtaining "privileges" in exchange for offering their heads to the Uco, they have plagued their statements before the jury court presided by Judge Cristina Costa. " They are scoundrels, bah, gentuza, " Cano snapped disdainfully in the room in the wake of a statement he arrived with the clear objective of trying to invalidate the instruction and present himself as a man "united" to Ponsoda.

A day later, the protected witness, as he did before the Civil Guard, placed him in a booth at the Mesalina hostess club as the man who instructed and proposed to assassinate Ponsoda in exchange for 35,000 euros, a job he said, He rejected "for not being interested." Later, he assured that it was he who put the defendants in contact with the three alleged hitmen.

During his statement, both Cano and the rest of the defendants smiled and clicked, something that bothered him. the defenders sharpened the knives to open their criminal past in Africa and sewed up questions like "how many people have you killed", at which point the magistrate rightly intervened to cut that root line. " We are not here to judge your morality, " he settled.

On Friday, there was an episode that tells of the war that Juan Cano has declared to the Civil Guard since he was the cornerstone of the crime. While declaring one of the agents, the defendant wanted to reduce credibility. " Liar, pussy, " he said angrily in the Hall, which earned him the magistrate to expel him. His response was due to the explanation of the Armed Institute agent. «I know that a prostitute related to him with whom we had three interviews disappeared from L'Alfàs del Pi».

Cano denied to the jury that he was a regular client of the brothel and assured that he only went to Messalina two or three times to “have drinks after lunch” with several co-workers.

The protected witness, however, portrayed him as a regular of the club he went to, among other things, "to buy cocaine . "

The sessions have left behind a scenario of miseries, sordid environments and village brawls that, according to the accused and the witnesses who have so far risen to the stand, each lived very differently.

The Public Ministry is convinced that Cano ordered the murder of Ponsoda because he wanted to be mayor. Unique and exclusively. And that led him to plan the murder in the brothel's booth on the summer nights of 2007. He, however, insists he is a victim of circumstances, a Turk's head to tie an investigation that was dead until the protected witness appeared.

The jury must assess whether it is one thing or the other. This week, the Polop case will continue to be cleared in the Chamber.

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