The macro-cause against the Hell's Angels is deflated: from 12 years in prison to a simple fine

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The first day of trial of the Hell's Angels gang in the National Court served yesterday to leave in fines -and not very large- the bulky prison sentences that

initially claimed .

About thirty of the fifty accused of being part of the group in

reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office.

Conformity sentences had been negotiated for a long time, but they were finished off yesterday, with negotiations both before the trial began and at lunchtime "or whatever," as one of the prosecutors in the case described it.

At four in the afternoon, the oral hearing resumed with the proposals of the Prosecutor's Office, which minutes later those affected would accept one by one.

Among them, the main one in charge of the chapter -as they call each of their branches- of the Hell's Angels in Mallorca,

.

The indictment attributed crimes that amounted to a total of

: belonging to a criminal organization, money laundering, threats, coercion, false documents, cover-up, prostitution, illegal detention, drug trafficking and possession of weapons.

The crimes are maintained, but each of the individual sentences is limited to a maximum of two years.

This not only lowers the overall figure to

, but also allows the prosecutor to request their replacement by a fine in all cases.

The proposed calculation is a two-day fine for every day in prison and for each of those days, the payment of four euros, the minimum fee allowed by law.

Thus, the Youssafi prison has ended up becoming

.

Frank Hanebuth, when he was part of the 'Hells Angels' of Hannover (Germany). CHRONICLE

Like him, 33 other defendants accepted the agreement with the Prosecutor's Office.

Another improvised it after a mid-afternoon break, thus changing the request for four and a half years in prison for belonging to a criminal organization and drug trafficking into a fine.

Sources from the Prosecutor's Office explain that the reductions respond to several reasons.

Among them, the slowness with which the procedure in the National Court has progressed, something that guaranteed a mitigation of undue delays that the Public Ministry was obliged to recognize.

The arrests occurred in

have passed since the accusation was filed

.

The difficulty of proving some crimes, including the most serious, has also been assessed.

The prosecution deemed it impossible to have the testimony of the victims of the illegal arrests and threats at trial.

The same sources emphasize that the agreement supposes that the commission of the crimes is recognized.

And that some of the most relevant defendants are among the dozen that have not reached an agreement.

For example,

, treasurer of the group and Khalil's brother.

They are asking for 26 years in prison, a figure that with the delays will have to be lowered.

Or

, leading figure of the

, who faces 13 years in prison.

Against them the trial continues with the uncertainty of the result.

On the other hand, those who have agreed prevent the court from imposing a higher sentence than the one agreed with the Prosecutor's Office.

Bench of the National Court, yesterday, with those accused of belonging to or collaborating with the Hell's Angels of Mallorca.POOL

The agreements include a general reference to the world organization.

The Prosecutor's Office will no longer maintain that the defendants "are part of a criminal organization of international scope and that revolves around a world motorcycle club known as

(HAMC)", with around 5,000 members integrated into one of its 150 chapters.

The revised indictment will stick to the Mallorca chapter.

The researchers maintain that it was decided to create the group in the Balearic Islands "because of its geographical location, existence of hostess businesses, the possibility of money laundering and drug trafficking, and the presence of a foreign resident population, which facilitated extortion practices."

For these activities, Germans, Greeks, Bulgarians and Turks, as well as Spaniards, sat on the bench yesterday.

Among the latter, a local police officer and a civil guard who in exchange for money collaborated with the Hells Angels.

Or not, because neither of them is on the list of those who recognized the facts yesterday.

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