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Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-14:37

  • Justice Two twin police officers from Ourense, before a jury for killing a colleague and faking his suicide

  • Movie crime events in the Orense Police

The alleged crime disguised as suicide that shook the Ourense

National Police Station in 2016

has ended its judicial journey. The

Provincial Court

has just agreed to the judicial file of the case that was being pursued against the twin police officers

Roy and Bernardo DL

, who came to assume important positions in the National Police Station of Ourense and have been accused of murder for years.

The

Investigative Court number 3

of Ourense closed the case in 2023 with the two brothers prosecuted for the crime of murder or manslaughter and robbery with force and the determination that they should be tried by a jury court. However, both the twins and the

Prosecutor's Office

appealed and now the Court has upheld the appeals and agreed to the provisional dismissal and archiving of the procedure.

The resolution is now final and, therefore, there is no appeal against it. In it, the provincial court concludes that "a single piece of evidence supports the attribution of the death" of Police Officer

Celso Blanco

, who was found dead from a gunshot in his office on the fifth floor of the Ourense Police Station, "as the result of a violent activity carried out by a third party".

This indication, which would imply that the death was not a suicide but a homicide, is, specifically, "the final position in which the slide of the weapon used was left, in an open situation." For the Court, this is "a certainly controversial indication as different expert opinions converge on it."

The order states that "even admitting that the death could be the result of the violent action of a third party," they did not find "a body of evidence with the necessary sufficiency to identify the brothers under investigation as this third person." He concludes that, in this case, "there is no evidence presented with the necessary sufficiency for the imputation of the alleged violent death" to the brothers under investigation.

Weapons theft

In this way, a story that dates back to a decade ago, between the end of 2014 and February 2015, is judicially shelved, when someone circumvented the security of the Ourense Police Station bunker and took six weapons.

Shortly after, anonymous letters sent first to internal affairs and then to the media aired the serious event and focused on an alleged plot that police officers from the narcotics unit had concocted to buy favors from supposed confidants around the world with official weapons. of drug trafficking.

The open internal affairs investigation was judicialized and resulted in 13 police officers who would later end up with the case filed or acquitted. With the

tsunami

of that corruption case still open, in 2016, police officer Celso Blanco was found shot dead in his office on the fifth floor of the judicial headquarters with one of the stolen weapons. Next to the body were three of the six stolen weapons and, just before supposedly taking his own life, he accused himself of the theft and anonymous messages by email and WhatsApp messages.

The investigating judge saw "multiple and unequivocal" indications that the twins, "in a joint and planned manner," stole the six weapons from inside the police station bunker and, when they were being investigated, "made use of one of them to to shoot his companion in the head, attributing to him the sending of anonymous letters and the theft of the weapons. Now, the Court does not consider that theory valid and exonerates them.

The magistrates of the Provincial Court of Ourense add that not only can their involvement in the homicide not be proven, but "no indications of any kind have been presented regarding their participation in the theft of the weapons. Any knowledge they may have of this In fact, it cannot be identified with its authorship" they point out, and add that there is no evidence of the alleged motive either, "since there is no indication that they were afraid of an incriminating statement by the victim in the theft of the weapons and the preparation of the anonymous letters that extend the responsibility on his person".