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Spain: Guardia Civil on trial for Seville shooting

01 September 1999

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The public prosecutor in the trial of Guardia Civil brigadier Pedro Jimenez for the shooting of Miriam Gomez in Dos Hermanas (Seville) in April, has asked for an eight month prison sentence (see Statewatch vol 9 no 2). Carlos Bedate considered the offence an imprudent act leading to death, which would carry a sentence of between one and four years. He decided that the sentence should be less than the minimum because Jimenez was fulfilling his duties. Benito Saldana, the lawyer representing Lopez's family, argued that the case should be treated as homicide, because firing was an excessive reaction to a car failing to stop for a breathalyser test. Jimenez claimed that he was aiming to burst the tyre.

El Pais 2.9.99.

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