The Valladolid court sees a man, David ME, in the dock this Thursday for an intentional fire recorded in July 2024 on the landing of the apartment he rented, with other people, and which caused serious … injury to your landlord, after the victim threw him out into the street and carried his belongings out of the building.
The alleged perpetrator of the fire faces a global penalty of seventeen years in prison, including fifteen for an offense of arson with danger to the life and physical integrity of people, another two years for an offense of serious injury and a fine of 1,080 euros for another offense of minor injuries, as well as the obligatory security measures concerning the prohibition of approaching and communicating with the victim and the payment, as civil liability, of a compensation package for 29,000 euros.
Of this amount, 23,743 euros would correspond to the injured person for the consequences and aesthetic damage, another 2,141 for the damage caused to his house, 1,318 more for another neighbor on the second floor who also suffered damage in her apartment and 822 others for the community of owners to repair the effects of smoke and soot on the walls of the second floor, according to what Ep informed.
The incident is linked to the decision of the owner of the second left located at number 4 of Cerámica Street, in the neighborhood of La Circular, to evict the accused from the property that the latter shared for rent with other people, following the disagreements between landlord and tenant due to the unauthorized and unspecified activities that the latter carried out in the home.
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The owner informed the tenant via WhatsApp, one month in advance, that he had to leave his room in the said apartment on August 1, 2024. Thus, on July 30, the owner of the house went there, while the defendant was not there, and took the keys that he found on a chair, while the next day he returned to prepare David’s room for the next tenant, as well He took out all his things. and left them on the second floor landing, stacked next to the elevator. He then informed the person concerned by telephone that the contract had ended and that he had taken his belongings to the landing.
The same day, around 5:36 p.m., still according to the public prosecutor’s theory, the evicted man managed to enter the building after calling the intercom and having a neighbor open the door and, once inside, “out of a desire for revenge and aware of the danger that this implied”, he set fire to several of his own belongings which were piled up on the landing, piled them up next to the door on the second left, and he ran away.
At the time, the owner was inside the apartment and, after noticing smoke coming through the door, went to the landing and discovered the fire. She tried to suffocate it with a blanket and a bucket of water, while another neighbor from the second on the right, also alerted to the fire by her neighbor’s cries, opened the door of her house but found herself facing a strong gust of hot air advancing towards her, so, unable to leave her property, she used a wet towel and a pan full of water to try to extinguish the flames, at the same time she raised the alarm via the 112.
The fire, as the public prosecution claims to justify the heavy sentence requested, not only caused serious injury to the owner, who suffered burns to his head, neck and upper and lower limbs – over 35 percent of his body surface – and less minor burns to the neighbor on the other floor, but also put the lives of the building’s residents in serious danger as the flames prevented those on the upper floors from leaving the five-story building as the smoke spread upwards through the stairwell.
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