“We have your friend in the bathtub cut in pieces”

Ernesto was sleeping when he received several WhatsApp messages from the mobile phone of Javier, his friend and exempleado. Were 3.32 in the morning. Had to go to the hotel Casa Fuster in Barcelona, and pay 280 euros for Javier was “released”. In the hotel, Ernesto (name is fictitious) received directions to a floor near you. Just open the door, it began a nightmare that lasted eight hours. He was tortured by two men for a debt between members of the Casuals, the faction most violent, the Boixos Nois (ultras) of the club.

“Strip pa’ dentro”, shouted José María, one of the radicals, to Ernesto while she is pricked in the back with a kitchen knife half a meter. His buddy, Jacob, came on the scene with another weapon. He was taken to a room with no windows and full of cables. “Start thinking of where to get the money, we have your friend in the bathtub cut in small pieces, we have to give 100 lukitas [100,000 euros] that we should”. While we threatened, we sat on a coil of cables and maniataron.

Ernesto did not know that Javier, his friend, nor was he in the bathtub or had been dismembered. Minutes before I had been on that floor, also tied hand and foot, and under threats. But, in an oversight, he managed to push one of their attackers and flee for the terrace”, according to the story of the judge who has investigated Aresbet the case. From there, he jumped to the floor of some neighbors, who helped him to escape. Took a taxi and he took refuge in the home of a friend. Before, Jose Maria and Jacobo had taken the mobile phone. With him mensajearon to Ernesto, who fell in the trap.

The torture began with a torch that one of the men burned the tibia of the left leg. Ernesto offered to call a friend, but not answered, and that “angered” to the attackers. According to the judicial investigation, they put a plastic bag on the head. One of the ultras picked up a cable from the light and plugged it in to the current. Ernesto received a discharge in the left foot. The other took the opportunity to poke twice with the kitchen knife: a in a finger and another in the quadriceps.

The friend, in the end, returned the call and agreed to go in the morning to a gas station to give the money to a buddy. When the accomplice has received 4,000 euros, the perpetrators allowed to Ernesto to be changed pants (stained with blood) and leave. Were the 11.15.

Javier, the man who managed to evade the kidnappers on the floor, denounced the events, which gave rise to a judicial investigation that has now come to an end. The holder of the court of instruction no. 24 of Barcelona, Maria Coscollola, see evidence to bring a lawsuit against the two attackers —regular consumers of cocaine, according to the story— judicially for unlawful detention, injuries, theft, misappropriation, against privacy and extortion.