• Courts ask for more than 22 years in prison for the accused of murdering the boyfriend of his ex-partner amputating his genitals

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has confirmed the 21 years in prison imposed a few months ago by the Jury Court of the Barcelona Court on Víctor AI for murdering the boyfriend of his ex-partner in Montcada after stabbing him repeatedly with a knife and cut off his genitals.

The victim suffered 118 injuries to various parts of the body.

In addition to the prison sentence, the court confirms that the convicted person must compensate the victim's partner with 187,000 euros and his family, who resides in Venezuela, with 119,000 euros.

The sentence considered that on June 1, 2019, the convicted person went to a bar near the home of his ex-girlfriend in an area near the Rodalies de Santa Maria de Montcada i Reixac station and waited there for him to come out together with his current partner, with whom he had just resumed the relationship after having interrupted it for a few months since he was in Venezuela.

When he saw them, the condemned man took out a knife from a backpack and attacked the victim who stood in his way to avoid attacking the woman.

It was then that he stabbed him repeatedly and when the man fell to the ground the condemned man sat on him so that he could not defend himself.

This caused 118 injuries to his head and the rest of his body and also cut his genitals.

The victim died shortly afterward from these injuries.

In the trial held last November at the Barcelona Court, the convicted person stated that he suffered from schizophrenia and that he was not taking medication and that his former partner told him that the victim "mistreated" her.

Therefore, he began to hear some "inner voices" that said to kill him.

However, he explained that when he went to meet her he only wanted to frighten him but that they fought and that in the scuffle they fell to the ground and he took the opportunity to stab her with the knife.

"There were many problems, the voices took over me and I ended up killing him," he declared at the trial and remarked that the voices "bothered me" and that is why he stabbed the victim with the knife, believing that he was doing "what he had to do."

In this sense, several witnesses explained that the condemned man began to shout "stalker" and "you deserve it as a rapist" while he stabbed him and that when he finished he raised his fingers in victory.

Shortly after murdering the victim, the condemned man dropped the knife and was restrained by some pedestrians who had watched the scene until the Mossos arrived.

"I felt very bad because the truth is that I do not dedicate myself to killing people. It is the first person I have killed and I do not want to do it again," he explained and remarked that he has been diagnosed since he was 16 years old with paranoid schizophrenia with episodes of violence when he is not on medication, such as assaulting his father, for which he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for some time.

The witnesses testified at the trial that the convicted man had threatened the couple a few days before and that the woman assured that she would notify the police.

In addition, they pointed out that he had been in the area on previous occasions spying on the couple and even asked about her in shops in the area.

Now, the court has upheld her conviction and she must remain in prison for this murder.

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