José Antonio was hoping that the trial against Aitor T., the 20-year-old who took his eyes when he took him in his taxi from Valencia to Ontinyent, would end the nightmare he embarked on that early morning in March 2015 A conviction, he thought, would help him turn the page and leave behind the worst episode of his life, the night he lost his sight. Thus he faced the trial last December. Then, he gathered forces to confront his assailant and recalled in court that race in his taxi that made him a "walking dead."

But the catharsis that José Antonio expected has not come to occur. Not even with the sentence of the Provincial Court of Valencia that condemns Aitor T. to 15 years in prison and forces him to pay compensation of up to 747,350 euros. The penalty, higher than that claimed by the prosecutor and closer to that claimed by the prosecutor, Juan Carlos Navarro, has not had the balsamic effect expected by the taxi driver.

The young convicted man has declared himself insolvent and, therefore, will hardly pay any compensation to José Antonio for leaving him blind at 58 and with a post-traumatic syndrome that will never leave him.

«With what he did to me and let it go like this. Yes, he has fallen 15 years in jail, but then he will be four days and he will not pay me the career he owes me . I am not going to charge a penny, nor the 97 euros that that journey cost, ”José Antonio lamented Thursday after knowing the intention of the convict to declare himself insolvent. At the moment, his lawyer has initiated the procedure of investigation of assets to try to elucidate if the convicted person is trying to avoid paying compensation by hiding part of his estate.

If this operation does not work, the victim may receive some amount from the public fund for victims of violent crimes , "but in no case will it approximate the figure that the court has issued in the sentence."

«No, I am not satisfied. This is not justice. I am very pissed off ”, José Antonio insisted yesterday just a few hours after learning the content of the ruling of the Valencian Provincial Court that, despite admitting his account of the facts, will not be used to compensate him financially for the damages caused by the already convicted . The room, as Europa Pess reported, establishes as proven facts that Aitor T. hired the services of José Antonio at dawn on March 19, 2015 to take him to his home in Ontinyent. Although he initially asked if 30 euros would be enough, he finally agreed to pay what the meter indicated as the driver indicated. The race ended, however, abruptly when the car was already in the immediate vicinity of the destination. The convict asked the victim to stop next to an industrial estate and tried to get out of the vehicle. However, the taxi driver held him by the arm and began an argument that would end the brutal aggression that left José Antonio blind by putting his fingers in his eyes with such violence that the eyeball burst.

This was witnessed by the agents of the Civil Guard and the Local Police of Ontinyent who came to help José Antonio where he left the now condemned. He not only did not pay for the race, which amounted to 97 euros, but took the backpack where the taxi driver kept the collection of the day (140 euros), documentation and a dataphone. The civil guards later located the bag with all the belongings of the taxi driver in the possession of the father of the convict, whom the aggressor called after the events. The agent who declared at the hearing said that the father of the convicted handed the backpack thinking that it was a property of his son and not the taxi driver who had been attacked.

The Hearing, also, also throws a reproach at the aggressor, who recriminates to simulate injuries that the victim would have done during the dispute in an attempt to present a version “clearly exculpatory and adjusted to their interests (...) objectively contratia to the reality of what happened. A "simulatory" attitude that forensics who examined him already warned.

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