Seven years imprisonment for breaking a man’s eye in a bar in Granada

First Division of the Regional Court of Granada He was sentenced to seven years in prison A 38-year-old man was tried last September after he smashed a glass on his head in a bar in the center of the capital. Granada in the late morning of July 17, 2022, for another person who needed a corneal transplant due to the attack. The building shall be liable to pay compensation to the victim of €150,000 as a subsidiary civil liability.

This was stated in the ruling dated 6 October, which was accessed by Europ Press, and which details the man now convicted of committing treasonous grievous injury. “He had been in the building for at least an hour and had been consuming alcoholic beverages “There were obvious symptoms of intoxication prior to the events” and that “such ingestion slightly altered his psychosomatic abilities” which the court accepts as a mitigating circumstance.

The assault occurred, as stated in the contested ruling, “suddenly” and “without saying a word,” when the accused, who had no criminal record, and whom the Public Prosecution requested to be imprisoned for nine years“He hit the victim in the face with a glass.”who was at the bar with a friend.

He caused injuries that initially consisted of “multiple severe wounds to the forehead, nose” and cheekbone area along with “a blown-out left eye, a large defect in the upper iris and a cataract.” He required three surgical interventions, including a corneal transplant.

For this reason, he is also prohibited from approaching a distance of less than 200 meters from the victim and communicating with him directly or indirectly for a period of ten years, all on the basis of the “extremely serious harmful result he caused” to the victim, with « Loss of vision in the left eye With serious repercussions “for a person who was 22 years old at the time of the events.”

These are injuries that were aggravated by damage to a “major” organ and the use of a “dangerous instrument” in the attack, said the ruling, which understands that “there is a clear intention in the conduct of the accused to assault the physical integrity of the complainant” and that “the primary evidence of the accusation is provided by the recording of the institution’s surveillance cameras.”

He added: “What was seen, and confirmed by the victim, is that he hit her forcefully with the glass, and there was no prior discussion or confrontation, because the accused comes from a different area than the area where the attacker is located.”

The trial took place after an adjournment, according to court-ordered procedures, which Europa Press consulted at the time. This came after changing the lawyer By the defendant, and at the request of this party, the oral trial that was originally scheduled for May 6 was suspended.

The last date, on September 25, came, according to judicial sources consulted by Europe Press, after the case was initially scheduled to be heard on November 27 of last year, before it was later postponed.