Spanish soldier claims to have killed Argentine journalist in Las Palmas

On October 23, 2016, an Argentine journalist was found dead in her apartment on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, Spain. Lorena Mazzeo He had a shower hose around his neck and was missing home affairs. While monitoring his latest messages, the local police managed to arrest the last person who accompanied him: a 30-year-old Spanish soldier. On Monday, at his trial, the defendant confessed to having killed her, but said that it was an accident during a badual game.

L & # 39; accused Felix D.C., said this morning the first day of the trial by popular jury which takes place at the hearing of Las Palmas. The prosecutor's office of Arrecife of Lanzarote-Puerto del Rosario asked 21 years in prison (20 for murder and 18 months for theft of several items), while the defense asked for acquittal.

The day of Mazzeo's death, the soldier went to the young Argentinian, whom he had already called on several occasions, as proved by the badysis of his phone's register . The Spanish said that until now, he had never seen him in person. He therefore partially contradicted his own story and that of a witness to whom he had told weeks later how he had killed her.

"I killed her because I wanted to … she was a putt … and she will not laugh at me anymore", said the soldier to a witness, according to a statement read in court by the prosecutor in charge of the case. The prosecution maintains that these words reveal a betrayal and premeditation turning this into murder, for which she seeks a 21-year prison sentence.

according to Diario de Valladolid, the prosecution case states that the military was maintaining a customer relationship between the summer and the month of October, 2016 approximately with the victim. According to research, after having bad with the man he attacked it in a surprising way in the back

"With the intention of ending his life and, in any event, accepting that he could cause his death, he choked it by strangling with a mechanism that was not not definitely confirmed, making him die in seconds, "said the Attorney General's office about the prisoner's guilt.

Afterwards, the army tried to eliminate any trace that could bind him to Mazzeo. "In order to avoid being discovered, the defendant took the sheets from the beds of the house and used condoms, cut the wires of the router and the telephone and, finally, locked the door of the house of Lorena Mazzeo ", added the prosecutor of the case.

At the same time, the defense lawyer, Julián de Martín Muñoz, asked the acquittal of the young man, considering that the death of this woman was due to a "unfortunate accident" during the practice of a badual game that "has become uncontrollable".

The lawyer, as the accused himself said before the judge of the Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 6 of Puerto del Rosario, explained that the two young men were having bad at her home and practicing ". badual game ".

"It was as if she had pbaded the shower hose around her neck and had made love like that, while the water was flowing," explained the soldier in his statement. After a few seconds, the Argentinian girl died of asphyxiation, according to this version.