The National Court agreed to acquit the accused of the murder Sexton in Algeciras on January 25, 2023 And causing injury to two other people when the defense of mental disorder was fully appreciated at the time of the events. no … However, it ordered him to be imprisoned for a maximum of 30 years in a psychiatric correctional institution.
In the first section ruling, the court explains that after analyzing the various psychological reports conducted on the personality of Yassin Kangaj, and in light of the rest of the evidence, it concluded that the accused had at the time of committing the acts, «Schizotypal association with acute psychotic decompensation With the lack of emotional and behavioral application that nullified their intellectual and volitional faculties, thus the defense is Article 20.1 of the Penal Code.
The Court explains that this article states that those who, at the time of the commission of the crime, due to any psychological abnormality or change, could not understand the illegality of the act or act in accordance with this understanding, will be exempt from criminal responsibility.
But the court requires the accused to pay compensation of 150,000 euros to the widow of Diego Valencia, the murdered priest, and 50,000 euros to each of his two sons, in addition to 17,000 euros to the relatives of the priest whom the accused tried to kill and left injured.
They exclude the terrorist nature
On the other hand, the judges ruled out that the crimes attributed to the accused were of a terrorist nature because this type of crime requires “causing a serious change in public peace” and creating “a state of terror among the population or part of it.” They assert that this does not correspond to the picture of acute psychotic decompensation, of schizoaffective affiliation, presented by the accused at the time of the execution of the events on January 25, 2023. They therefore add that the events were the result of “the delusional perception of prejudices and messianism, who, like the “Chosen One,” sought to put an end to the “possessed.”
However, the court finds that the accused committed two crimes of premeditated murder, the crime of attempted murder, the crime of injuries, and the crime of disrupting a religious ceremony. But they absolved him of all of them because of the psychological disorder he suffers from.