Almost four and a half years later, the aggression suffered by a Mallorcan cyclist on a road in Gran Canaria has seen its judicial tour. The images of the attack suffered by Raúl Márquez at the hands of a driver in the descent of the Pico de las Nieves, in January 2021, turned to Spain and, after a long process, the well -known island athlete has seen how the courts gave him the reason for the accumulation of evidence in his favor.
Thus, the Criminal Court number three of Las Palmas has issued a sentence that is already firm for conformity, and that Condemns JCRS to a six -month prison sentence with the accessory of special disqualification for the right of passive suffrage during the time of the sentence. And he does For a crime of injurywithout the concurrence of modifying circumstances of criminal responsibility. In the same way, The ruling forces the defendant to pay Raúl Márquez an amount of 10,000 euros in civil liability (After an agreement between both parties), in addition to taking care of the procedural coasts.
The sentence assumes that the defendant “pounced on the victim, throwing him to the ground and hit him repeated with his fists on the face and other parts of the body”. It also recounts that, as a result, Márquez suffered a facial/mandibular bruise, a hematoma on the right cheek, a headachematom Perform rehabilitation and physiotherapy work, with a damage calculated in 29 days. To this were added damage in cycling material, expected expected at 1,469’87 euros.
The events happened early in the afternoon of January 23, 2021, in the decline in the Pico de las Nieves, in Gran Canaria. In a stretch of the descent, a vehicle made a dangerous advancement to Márquez, who was next to some of the corridors of the Qromia team Making a stop on the island. After that, an exchange of opinions between the two began, especially when the driver, accompanied by a woman, got out of the vehicle and started a heated discussion with Raúl Márquez.
The video of the same has been a fundamental proof in the trial to sanction the driver’s attitudewho took it with the Mallorcan cyclist, who took off his shoes to have more stability, after which He received a punch that knocked him down, to later undertake her with the athlete Before the astonishment of the witnesses, who captured the facts with their mobile phones.
After that, Raúl Márquez denounced the facts before the Civil Guard and had to be transferred to a medical center to be the blows and wounds receivedin addition to, also, to be denounced by your aggressor, now convicted. Now, more than four years later, a judge closes this chapter that jumped to the national media after being advanced for the last minute and allows Raúl Márquez to close a page that had been waiting for years.
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