The Court of Instruction number 16 of Seville granted a period of ten days, so that the nephew of the famous artist María del Monte Antonio Tejado and the ten other defendants for the attack on the singer’s chalet in August … 2023 present their corresponding defense briefs, in view of the trial that will be held before the Provincial Court on the issue, since the accused have already received on November 11 the order to open an oral trial against them.
Concretely, the Court of Instruction number 16, in more detail the magistrate Juan Gutiérrez Casillas, issued an order dated last Wednesday, December 10, ordering the transfer of the procedure to the accused, “so that, in accordance with the provisions of article 784 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, they present defense briefs within 10 days against the accusations made, avoiding that in If they do not verify this, it will be understood that they object to the actions and the procedure will continue. without prejudice to the liability which may be incurred in accordance with the provisions of Title V of Book VII of the organic law of the judiciary.
Faced with this judgment, let us remember, The prosecution demands that Tejado be sentenced to 30 years in prisonwhile María del Monte’s representation asks for 28 years in prison for him.
In his order opening the oral trial, the investigating judge in charge of the case, Juan Gutiérrez Casillas, states that they have already been presented the indictments of the parties in person, highlighting in particular the indictment of the prosecution, which requests a total of 30 years in prison against Antonio Tejado, considering him as the “intellectual author” of the theft. at the Gines house of his aunt María del Monte and her partner, the journalist Inmaculada Casal, in the early morning of August 25, 2023.
Assault with violence
According to the prosecution, members of Arseny Garibyan’s group, aka “El Ruso”, They attacked the chalet with extreme violence, the thieves going so far as to muzzle, assault and threaten with death the occupants of the chalet where the couple were then, as well as the journalist’s daughter, her husband and a domestic worker.
For parquet, Tejado provided the Ruso gang with ‘precise’ information about his aunt’s house: structure of the house, location of the safe, location and condition of security systems, etc.; as well as resident dynamics to know who was in the house at any time; which confirms what had already been underlined by the investigating judge, namely that the singer’s nephew would be the mastermind or intellectual author of the attack.
According to the prosecutor in charge of the case, Eva Mas, The attackers “even knew that the main door suffered from defects in the locking system”.as well as that the alarm systems were not connected and the security cameras located around the perimeter of the property were not working.
Faced with this, Tejado’s defense warned that the fact that the attackers “can assume with a certain degree of certainty that a safe was installed in a house with the characteristics of the one that was burglarized, inhabited by two people of public notoriety, with a long and prosperous professional career, seems to be a most logical deduction.
“It is not necessary to have inside information to know or assume with a high degree of security that there would be a safe inside the house. and this would be where the most precious objects would be kept. In addition, it can be stated that there are indications that the perpetrators did not have inside information, such as the fact that the attackers, according to the victims’ testimonies, confused a small red refrigerator in the master bedroom with the safe,” explains Tejado’s lawyer.
The prosecution claims that the attackers knew the “precise layout” of the singer’s chalet thanks to information from her nephew.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, however, emphasizes that everything seems to indicate that through Tejado, the attackers They knew in advance what the “specific distribution” of the property was.the location of the rooms, who each one belonged to and which of them was the safe.
Regardless, the investigating judge agreed in his order to open an oral trial against ten of the eleven defendants in the case, including Tejado, for cinco alleged crimes of theft with violence in an inhabited house concurrent with five misdemeanor counts of unlawful possession and one misdemeanor charge of wounding; while in relation to the eleventh accused, he did the same, but for a single offense of reception.
From there, the investigating judge imposed on the eleven investigated the obligation to file a deposit of 639,726 euros within one day “to secure any pecuniary responsibilities which may be imposed on them, with the warning that if they fail to provide it, property in sufficient quantity will be seized to secure the sum indicated.
Moreover, recently, the Provincial court he overturned Tejado’s last letter to avoid trial, rejecting the two appeals filed by two of the accused, members of the gang of the also accused Arseny Garibyan, alias “El Ruso”; against the order issued last May by the Court of Instruction number 16, which accepted the continuation of the abbreviated procedure of actions against the eleven defendants, among whom is Tejado, who, although he did not appeal this order, adhered to these challenges, now dismissed.
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