The release in April 2020 of

Francisco Javier Almeida

, arrested last Thursday for the death in Lardero (La Rioja) of a nine-year-old boy, Álex, occurred amid the discrepancies between the bodies in charge of granting it.

The

Board of Penitentiary Treatment

of the prison where El Dueso (Cantabria) was then, the body responsible for classifying inmates in the different grades and reporting on their progress or setbacks in grade according to their evolution, opposed in February of 2020 to grant him the third degree and therefore provisional freedom.

The Board's decision, which was taken by majority, although with differences between the different technicians who evaluated Almeida, was appealed to

Penitentiary Institutions

.

This body, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, decided in February of last year in favor of the defendant and granted him the open regime.

By then, Almeida, who had been

sentenced to 30 years

for a crime of sexual assault and murder committed in 1998, had already served three-quarters of the sentence and had received permits - up to 39 were granted - without incident.

Two months after the approval of the Penitentiary Institutions, in April 2020, the prison surveillance judge of La Rioja, a community to which Almeida had been transferred, endorsed Almeida's passage from second to third degree and the Prosecutor's Office did not oppose for which it was authorized.

Almeida, who was serving the entire sentence in 2023, had already applied for

the third degree in 2017

, when he had been in prison for 19 years and had served three-quarters of the sentence.

Then, also with the unfavorable report of the Treatment Board, it was not granted.

The PP spokesperson in Congress,

Cuca Gamarra

, today demanded that the Minister of the Interior,

Fernando Grande-Marlaska

, add "responsibilities" and give explanations about "why a murderer had a third degree when the Treatment Board itself denied it. ".

Gamarra also conveyed "his party's commitment to strengthen the rule of law and the toughening of certain penalties that are absolutely necessary."

"We must respond to a society that is crying a lot and has a lot of anger inside," he concluded.

Francisco Javier Almeida had the door to his apartment open and

the unconscious child in his arms

when a group of parents who were looking for him discovered him, indicating to investigators that he was probably about to get rid of him.

The wife of one of these parents has told Europa Press what happened.

"When the notice was given to go looking through the portals,

an 11-year-old girl

who had been harassed pointed out the portal, saying that it was there where the man was," said the woman, named Susana.

Her husband and two other parents entered the building and rang all the bells "until they reached the third floor, and they found this man with the door of his house open and with the child in his arms, already unconscious."

The alleged murderer told them that "

he had passed out

, that he did not know anything, and that he had found him there."

The parents tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate the boy while going down in the elevator.

"My husband has had a very bad night, he is without sleep, he does not speak, he cannot get out of his head" what happened, said this neighbor.

"They were surprised to see him so calm and so normal, they could not believe that it had been him and he was like that," he added.

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