Bandolo, is on trial for two attempted murders in a house in Ordis

11/30/2025 at 6:43 pm

Juan Manuel Martínez Quintáns, also known as Pandolo, is one of the most feared criminals in the Galician annals. After half a life in and out of prison for all kinds of violent robberies and many attempted murders, this repeat prisoner He will sit on the bench again this week. Trial of two attempted murders in Ordís in May 2023 which will be held in the Court of La Coruña This could be a prelude to another investigation in which Bandolo has recently been highlighted, which refers to him as a suspect in two cases of death and dismemberment in Mazarikos, benefiting from two prison statements, between the end of 2022 and 2023. Investigators are convinced of his involvement in two cases in which the investigation has not yet been completed, but which have already generated several headlines. While waiting for investigations into these two alleged crimes to progress, Bandolo will have to provide explanations within days. He was accused of assaulting a home in Ordis where he ended up shooting a family member with a gunWho surprised him in the middle of the night when he was trying to steal their car.

According to the indictment seen by the ABC, in the early hours of the night of May 31, 2023, between 3am and 5am, the accused entered the home of a family of six without permission. The noise that the criminal made while trying to leave the house in one of the vehicles alarmed many of the house’s residents, and one of them came out of the window to reprimand him for what he was doing. then Bandolo fired the first shot, which missed. The second bullet was fired in the courtyard of the house towards another family member, who was wounded in the abdomen. The violence escalated, and Bandolo, according to the memorandum of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, confronted the mother, whom he forced into the car to open it, a dead end through which another family member entered the scene, who tried to prevent the criminal from taking the woman. Touching story of events: “He aimed directly at her head, a few centimeters away from her, and with the unambiguous intent to end her life. He pressed the gun’s trigger while telling her: ‘This is because you asked for it.’” Although the gun jammed at that moment.

Luck saved the life of this individual, who along with the rest of the residents of the house were able to subdue Bandolo when the weapon failed and until the first agents arrived on the scene. Because of what happened that night, the prosecutor is asking for more than twenty-six years in prison for the two attempted murders – nine years for each – as well as other penalties for weapons possession and attempted robbery. The reasons pile up for this fifty-year-old man, whom those who treated him describe as bold, fearful, and violent. He is doomed to a great love of weapons That he would have taken advantage of his release from prison to continue adding to his criminal record.

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