The Prosecutor’s Office opposes Daniel Sancho being extradited to Spain for an alleged crime of aggression committed in 2019

2023-09-19 11:45:00

Daniel Sancho, in the hotel on the island of Koh Phangan where he committed the atrocious crime ROYAL THAI POLICE | EFE

He requests a year in prison and that he compensate the victim with 2,100 euros, considering it proven that on November 9, 2019, the investigator hit a man in the taxi queue on Abascal Street in Madrid.

19 sep 2023 . Updated at 11:56 a.m.

The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office has presented a brief in a court in which it opposes requesting Thailand to extradite Daniel Sancho, who is currently in prison in that country for the murder of Edwin Arrieta, for a previous crime, allegedly committed in 2019when he allegedly attacked a man waiting for a taxi.

As reported by the Prosecutor’s Office this Tuesday, Daniel Sancho Bronchalo has a case open in a Madrid court for a crime of injuries in which the date for holding the oral hearing has not yet been set, and that, contrary to what has requested the defense of the investigated person in this procedure, There is no requirement to request his extradition.

Due to these events, the Public Ministry requests a year in prison for him and that he compensate the victim with 2,100 euros, considering it proven that on November 9, 2019 The person under investigation was on Abascal Street in Madrid and got into a taxi without respecting the queue that had formed to use the public service.for which a man reprimanded him and then Daniel Sancho punched him in the head which caused the victim to break a tooth and break a gap, according to tax sources.

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The prosecutor argues that, with regard to this case, There are alternative measures to extraction that would allow the trial to be held and explains that there is no evidence that the accused’s stay in Thailand sought to escape from Spanish Justice because he has always been at the disposal of the Court in all the summons received.

The Prosecutor’s Office has specified that, after presenting its indictment for these events on April 26, 2021, In November 2021, the Court of Instruction number 21 of Madrid issued an order to open an oral trial which was notified to the accused personally on January 18, 2022, so all that remained was to set the date for the start of the oral hearing.

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Without any action having been taken by the Court for a year and a half, on September 8, the procedural representation of the accused indicated that Daniel Sancho He has been in provisional prison since August in Thailand, for which he requested that the corresponding procedures be carried out to request active extradition and surrender to the Spanish judicial authority.

The Prosecutor’s Office recalls that in the procedure opened in Spain, no reasoned order of imprisonment has been issued in any procedural phase, nor is it possible at the present time to request it, for two main reasons. The first is because the Criminal Procedure Law requires that, in order to grant provisional detention, the maximum penalty imposed for the crime be equal to or greater than two years, something that is not likely due to possible undue delays in the case since it would be possible leave the sentence to a fine.

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The second reason is that the accused has always been at the disposal of the Spanish judicial authorities when required to do so. The Public Ministry recalls that currently the only agreement in force between Spain and Thailand is the Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Spain and the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand. on cooperation in matters of execution of criminal sentences, which is only applicable, in accordance with its article II, to situations in which the person whose transfer is requested has been declared guilty and sentenced.

Hence, any request for international cooperation would be made under the principle of reciprocity. Based on this principle, The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that other instruments of international cooperation can be usedapart from extradition, such as holding the trial through the videoconference system, the temporary transfer of the detainee for the sole purposes of his trial in Spain.

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