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The Prosecutor 's Office of the Principality of Asturias imputes to the four investigated for the death of the IU councilor in Llanes , Javier Ardines, in August 2018 a crime of murder with malice and mediating price. Specifically, PN would be in inductor condition; JM , as a necessary cooperator; and the investigated MK and DB as co-authors.

This morning, the Public Prosecutor's Office transferred to the four investigated the facts that are imputed to them at this point in the procedure, as established in Article 25 of the Law of the Court of Jury. The appearance was held in the Court of First Instance and Instruction of Llanes.

As reported by the Prosecutor's Office, the petition for conviction for the four investigated will be specified once the indictment has been presented, at the appropriate procedural moment. For the moment, the Public Prosecutor's Office does not consider it necessary to carry out more evidentiary proceedings, without thereby renouncing the request for any other in any other procedure than those legally provided for.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, PN is married to a cousin of the deceased's wife, Javier Ardines. Since adolescence, PN and Ardines had a relationship, which lasted more than 30 years when the events were committed and was developed in Llanes, where the mayor lived and where PN moved especially during vacation periods (he lived with his family in the Basque country). The two maintained this relationship covertly and apart from their respective partners.

The defendant discovered the idyll in December 2017, after recording a conversation between his wife and the deceased on his mobile phone, and he made it known to her, although both continued to live together as a couple.

In July 2018, the investigated made the decision to end the life of Javier Ardines. To do this, he contacted the second of the accused, JM, whom he asked to find people who could execute the events. Thus, the second accused raised the request of another of the accused who, after a meeting in which an agreement was reached on the price to pay, decided to act together with the other investigated who is accused of being another of the executors.

On July 27, PN; JM and one of the alleged hitmen traveled to Belmonte so that the inductor and mediator gave him the necessary instructions to finish off Ardines. PN had an exhaustive knowledge of both the area where the events would take place and the customs of the victim. Thus, they proposed to ambush the councilman, to ensure the result.

In the early hours of August 1, 2018, the two accused of being the perpetrators of the crime went back to Belmonte with the sole purpose of killing the councilman and, once there, they placed a metal fence of work on a road where it is foreseeable the victim would pass. The place was conducive to committing the facts because it is an isolated and wooded rural area, surrounded by meadows and scrubland. At around six in the morning of that day 1, the victim left his home and, when passing by that road, he ran into the fence, although he circumvented it and drove away from the scene in his vehicle.

As a result of this event, one of the accused of carrying out the crime showed his reluctance to execute the events, so the inductor, PN, offered him more money and informed him, in a meeting, that he should not kill Javier Ardines until past August 10, the date on which the local festivities ended, since before that day there would be many people.

Thus, in the early morning hours of August 16, around four thirty in the morning, with enough time to prepare a better ambush, the two executors arrived at Belmonte and placed two more fences on the same road, transversely (the first , from day 1, continued there). They did so in a way that prevented the passage of any vehicle, to ensure that they did not fail and to increase the time available to board the victim.

In addition, to have more guarantees of success and to nullify the possibility of defense of the victim, each of the investigated carried a bottle of pepper spray, one of them a stick and the other, a baseball bat. They then hid by a wall and waited.

At around 6 in the morning, the councilman from Llanisco left his house in his van and, when he reached the point where the fences were located, he stopped the march and got out of the vehicle to remove them. He left the engine running, the lights on, and the driver's door open.

At that time, the investigated suddenly came out of his hiding place and sprayed him with the pepper spray. The victim ran, chased by the investigated. He was hit when he was hit in the head with either the stick or the baseball bat. He fell to the ground on his knees and then, face down. He was also strangled from behind.

The victim was unable to defend himself, just intuitively placing his right arm as a shield. Once on the ground, he was held and / or dragged a few meters. As a result of the assault, FJAG passed away.

After the facts, JM, accused of acting as a mediator, gave one of the executors an amount of money for the work done.

By order of February 18, it was agreed to enter or register at the home of the other executor, in Bilbao, and it was found inside, among other effects, a personal defense spray, a pepper spray spray, 7 knives, a Taser 3,800 volt, an American fist shaped Taser and multiple cartridges.

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