- Fatal accidents during maneuvers: the context
- The Cerro Muriano affair which shocked the army
- Outrage, audios and change of commands
- The military court investigation
- The prosecutor moves his case: prison sentences and responsibilities
- Margarita Robles’ reaction
Fatal accidents during maneuvers: the context
Overturning vehicles, gunshots this end where it was not planned, blastparachute jumps, heart attacks after significant physical effort… some maneuvers of the Armed Forces ended up in fatal accidents in the recent decades.
The Cerro Muriano affair which shocked the army
An affair which caused special impact among the military was that of corporal Miguel Ángel Jiménez Andújar and the soldier Carlos León Ricoboth Infantry Regiment No. 2 “La Princesa”of the “Guzmán the Good” Brigade of the Army.
A tomorrow from the end of December 2023 a group of military of the regiment carried out a physical approachand at some point they reached a lakewhere they began to practice water crossing.
Behind him exerciseseveral military they had to receive emergency medical assistance. But the most serious thing is that two soldiers did not appear. When they found them, they had drowned.
Outrage, audios and change of commands
Their death caused a unprecedented wave of indignation. They quickly circulated through groups of members of the Armed Forces audios attributed to the soldiers who had participated in the exerciseaudios in which they accused deaths of several responsible commanders design and lead the exercise.
There was a unpublished answercalls for tributes At deceaseda cascade of messages between soldiers denouncing that the controls They treated the soldiers without worrying about their physical integrity.
Furthermore, some officers they removed the unit command for these facts.
The military court investigation
A military court opened a investigation. He judge came to dictate treatment car For six officers of the Infantry Regiment No. 2 “La Princesa”: he colonel head of the regimentA lieutenant colonelA commanderA captainA lieutenant and a sergeant.
The minister and the #JEMÉ They were at the base of the X Brigade “Guzmán el Bueno” @Land Army In #CerroMuriano #Cordobato pay tribute to the two soldiers who died last December.
🗣️ “We will collaborate with justice without any reservation. We owe them… pic.twitter.com/bJNreHMEqq– Ministry of Defense (@Defensagob) January 4, 2024
Six police officers initially charged
He accused them of crimes of failure to fulfill the duties inherent to command, crimes against the duties of servicewith sanctions equivalent to those of homicide inside Ordinary penal code (speak two deceased), And two attempted crimesfor the military who had to be treated by hypothermia.
After a two-year educationin which the pursuit of several controlshe military prosecutor of the case presented his charge.
The prosecutor moves his case: prison sentences and responsibilities
The representative of public prosecutor requires a total of eight years in prison against one captain. He accuses her of two crimes against the efficiency of the service for the death of Corporal Jiménez Andujar and of soldier Léon Rico.
Eight years for a captain
He bases his accusation on the fact that captain did not inform his superiors in the regiment, how he planned to develop the exercise. Moreover, he directed it in a way “improvised” and under his personal judgment.
Five years for a lieutenant
HAS five years in prison faces a lieutenant by two crimes against the efficiency of the service.
Who is excluded from the accusation
They get rid of the charge of the tax A lieutenant colonel and a commandersuperiors of captain and of lieutenant inside Infantry Regiment No. 2 “La Princesa”. He military prosecutor don’t like criminal liability in his behavior.
The defense, obliged to compensate
Furthermore, the charge claims that the Ministry of Defense pay 422,000 euros has families of the two deceased in the concept of civil liability.
Margarita Robles’ reaction
This tragedy inside Army also caused a striking answer of the Minister of Defense.
Marguerite Robles visit several times the basis of Muriano Hilland I came to ask publicly to the military Army assigned to this barracks which will declare the truth, intrepid as possible pressuresFor clarify what happened in this unfortunate exercise.
It was, at that time, a real shake within Armyan episode in which many military expressed on rage and the indignation for other cases of death caused, on numerous occasions, by neglector in which there have been attempts to concealment culprits.
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