“I am an Amazon Indian. “They have no idea what it means to survive.”

Alfredo Sanchez Chacon arrived at the Ferrol courts convinced of this “Stealing food is not a crime.” The man, who had spent half his life in and out of prison, and who had served time for the murder of a young man in Countess, had escaped … from Bonx Prison where he was serving his sentence in 2021 and participated in an escape that kept area residents on edge for nearly a year. During that period, the Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of committing a series of robberies and assaulting a neighbour, for which he was put on trial on Monday. At the entrance to the room, Chacon He refused to sit on the bench, citing hip problems. They attacked the public defender defending him. He criticized the judge, who rejected his request to appoint a new lawyer, “He sympathizes with the victims.” During his testimony, the Galician Rambo made several outbursts. From the phrase “Do what you want” that he assigned to the judge, to “This trial is rigged” with which he began his intervention.

Chacon, who is very critical of his position, has insisted on this several times “I’m not a rapist or a murderer, I only killed a camel once, but I don’t like hurting people.”. When questioned by the public prosecutor and the judge himself, the accused admitted that he was the man who appeared in the videos submitted by Cabanas residents, in which he was seen entering homes to steal food. “I am an Amazon Indian. They have no idea what it means to survive. The day I went to the garage was the coldest night, and I needed shelter and picked up a jacket I found,” Chacon explained.

accused He faces 10 years in prison and rejected the prosecution’s offer to reduce his sentence In 3 years and 8 months. “I will not accept a single day,” he said, determined to defend his innocence. “All of this makes me laugh. In one of his continuous interventions before the judge, he said: “I do not steal money or jewelry.” “I was dead from the cold. “In the winter there is no food in the mountains, and I picked kiwis to get calories,” he said of the months he spent in the mountains.

Regarding his ability to survive in nature, the accused, a former military man, stated that he could survive for weeks without eating. He said he was “ready for it” and pointed as an example He has been on a “hunger strike” since October 10. He dismissed the five witnesses who testified against him, saying: “Let’s see if they will get me out of prison.” The civil guard who arrested him, who also testified, became upset and said: “This is the captain.”

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