María del Monte opposes the request for freedom of her nephew Antonio Tejado, in prison for the assault on his house

Europa Press Seville

Seville

Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-21:48

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The private accusation exercised by the artist

María del Monte

in the case being investigated by the Court of Instruction number 16 of Seville, for the assault and robbery with violence committed in the Gines chalet that he shares with his wife, the journalist

Inmaculada Casal,

in August from 2023; She has opposed the request for provisional release made by her nephew

Antonio Tejado, currently in provisional prison as the alleged intellectual author of the events, as

Diario de Sevilla

has advanced

and sources in the case have confirmed to Europa Press.

The Prosecutor's Office had also already opposed this request, also rejecting the release of the other five defendants currently in provisional detention, including the Russian citizen

Arseny G.,

understanding that the reasons given for the precautionary measure of imprisonment for all of them. Regarding the latter, according to the Prosecutor's Office, the approach to his release has raised the possible materialization of his expulsion from Spain, a possibility that has weighed when taking a position against said request.

When ordering the imprisonment of these people, the investigating judge of the case,

Juan Gutiérrez Casillas,

highlighted the

"extreme violence"

to which the singer, his wife and the other victims of the assault were subjected.

Said judicial resolution details that from the investigations carried out by the Civil Guard, it is deduced that at around 4:40 a.m. on August 25, 2023, the investigated persons

Arseny G., José SA, Antonio SR, José Ramón MM and Miguel Ángel GT

"accessed the interior of the house" in Gines inhabited by the artist María del Monte "hooded with gloves and dark clothes, attacking the perimeter fence and the exterior access door of the property from the back and later opening the main door of the house with the use of force".

To this end, the investigated

Antonio Tejado,

nephew of the artist "and in concert with the rest of those involved,

facilitated the possibility for the rest of the accused to enter the property through the back door

without the need for major damage to said door and allowing which could easily be entered inside," according to the investigation.

JEWELS WORTH MORE THAN ONE MILLION EUROS WERE STOLEN

"Once in the house, those investigated

tied up and held the residents of the house, beating them, mistreating them and threatening to kill them,

until the owner of the house agreed to open the safe, from which the assailants took possession. They seized jewelry and watches for an initial value of approximately one million euros and 14,500 euros in cash, among other effects and belongings that were inside the home," the order states.

He states that "in order to make possible the end of the robbery described, Antonio Tejado communicated and made known to the rest of the assailants

the moment in which the owner of the home was inside

so that she could coercively open the door to them." safe in order to steal effects and cash and, constituting himself as the intellectual author of the act, he described the rooms of the property and made possible access to the material and direct authors of the violent robbery for the theft with illicit benefit.

The order thus specifies that María del Monte, his wife and three other people who were inside the house "suffered the violent and coercive robbery with disproportionate use of physical force by the perpetrators, with a situation of great danger to their integrity." of the victims and great anxiety and well-founded fear among them".

The perpetrators, according to the order, also had "third parties" such as

José Manuel SR and Josué MdT,

"who as beneficiaries of the stolen effects placed them on the illicit market at a profitable price for the authors in a receiving activity with which to place goods on the black market.

THEY HAD FAKE POLICE EQUIPMENT

It also explains that in the home searches of the accused, "effects typical of those used for the perpetration of the act itself, such as a balaclava, a lock cylinder remover, a walkie talkie, a set of lock picks, fake jackets from the national police force, were seized." "Police and the Civil Guard, cash, fake police luminous rotary, GPS device type beacon for vehicles and in the case of Miguel Angel GT also narcotic substances consisting of almost 2 kilos of marijuana intended for drug trafficking."

"The events described reveal

great danger,

the use of extreme violence towards the victims, the use of dangerous means to achieve their ends and a notorious disregard for any rights of the victims," ​​warns the order, which blames the accused an alleged crime of robbery with violence and intimidation in an inhabited house and use of a dangerous instrument, another alleged crime of illegal detention, a serious crime of injuries, a possible additional crime of criminal organization and also an alleged additional crime against public health in the case of Miguel Angel GT

Thus, Judge Juan Gutiérrez Casillas ordered the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail of Antonio Tejado, Arseny G., José SA, Antonio SR, José Ramón MM and Miguel Angel GT

At the time of appearing recently before the judge, Tejado, who agreed to answer the questions of his defense lawyer, the investigating judge and the prosecutor of the case, but not of the private prosecution,

denied that he had provided any information

to the alleged executors. of theft for the commission of the same.

THE EXCULPATORY VERSION OF TEJADO

In that sense, he assured the judge that

he has "no connection" with the detainees

except in the case of Arseny G., the alleged leader of the criminal group and with whom he has a "strictly sporting" relationship, since this being another case of A boxing figure would have asked him to train him personally, given his love for this practice.

Regarding the previous telephone call from Tejado to Arseny G. before the assault, the accused allegedly claimed not to remember the content of the conversation due to the time that had elapsed; adding regarding the calls to his aunt and owner of the house, -- also before the events and that the investigation connects with the confirmation that the artist would be in the house and therefore there would be someone who knew how to open the box strong--; that

she intended to give him a puppy that she had ordered for him.

According to his version of the matter, the artist had commissioned him to purchase a puppy for her home and, after obtaining it, he was interested in going to deliver it to her because the dog had already been in her home for several days, with what that implies, and also He wanted to go on vacation for a few days.