Two years in prison for a ‘policeman’ for the death of a follower of Athletic

The Provincial court of Bizkaia has sentenced to two years in prison and six years of disqualification to one of the six ertzainas tried for a crime of homicide reckless in the death in 2012 of the amateur Athletic Club Iñigo Cabacas, who died after being shot in the head by a rubber ball thrown by the riot police of the basque Police.

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The agent condemned is the command of higher rank in the police operation, which provided for the Police after a european party of the Athletic Club was held in the campo de San Mamés on April 5, 2012. Cabacas was seriously injured that night in a police crackdown conducted by the Police on the occasion of the incidents that occurred in Bilbao after the game between atletico and Schalke 04. The young man died four days later in the Hospital of Basurto.

The court held in its ruling that the death of Cabacas could have been avoided if there had been an "omission" and "inaction absolute" control at the front of the operating. "The agent has acknowledged at all times, especially in Betexper the act of judgment, that the situation did not justify the burden that has occurred, that you had to stop the police action," says the judgment. And he added: "The officer charged has never denied that he was aware of what was happening, rather on the contrary, he acknowledged in his statement that he saw perfectly the load from their van and acknowledged that his assessment was that one should not perform a load in that place, and circumstances."

The judges conclude that the shooting of "live ammunition" in the alley where he was hit the follower rojiblanco, who was "full of people", could "cause damage" to people. This perception had to be "much clearer" to a police officer "with the professional background and experience of the person".

The Hearing biscayne imposes a penalty of two years imprisonment to the police officer who led the operation. During the trial, this agent said that when there was the burden on police in the alley of Maria Diaz de Haro, where he was reached Cabacas, not even got out of the van. The other five police defendants have been acquitted.

In the trial of this case that concluded last November 9, the private prosecution exercised by the family of Cabacas asked four years in prison for each of the six defendants and six years of disablement, while the Prosecution and defense asked for the acquittal for not seeing crime on its performance.