Twenty years in prison for shooting the Olympic Village killer

BarcelonaTwenty years in prison for executing the Olympic Village killer. This is the sentence imposed by the Barcelona Court of Appeals, applying the jury's verdict. The popular court had already found the hitman and his necessary collaborator guilty in the murder of Valentín Moreno, who at 18 earned his nickname after murdering 24-year-old Carlos Javier Robledo in a macabre game: beating to death the first person to touch the jacket they had left on the floor.

Now, the sentence puts a figure to the jury's verdict, which unanimously ruled that the two defendants were guilty of Moreno's execution on the afternoon of November 18, 2021, when they shot Adrià de Besòs in the back while he was with his family on his way.

Daniel Alejandro Díaz, the gunman, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime after indicting himself in court, explaining that he had received €5,000 to travel from Colombia with a companion, whom the court has not located, to execute Moreno. Sergio Gutiérrez has also been sentenced to 20 and a half years as an accomplice in putting the hitman and the mastermind of the crime in contact, although the investigation has also failed to clarify his identity. Gutiérrez was also sentenced to six months longer than the gunman for using false identities to sign up for phone lines and rent scooters while following Moreno in the days before the crime.

Mastermind of the crime is pending.

Having failed to clarify who the mastermind of the murder was, the prosecutor stated during the trial that the jury's verdict gave him grounds to consider asking the investigating court to reopen the case to find the person who ordered the crime.

In fact, the Prosecutor's Office declined to question Javier Gómez, known by the nickname Javidubi, as a witness to "preserve his right to a defense" in the event that the investigation into him as a possible mastermind of the crime would be reopened. Prosecutor Félix Martín made this decision given that Gutiérrez's exculpatory version linked the witness to the hitmen. Furthermore, during the trial, a brother of the victim also revealed a detail that had not previously been revealed: he suggested that Javidubi had met with Moreno and two other men a few hours before his death to discuss a debt related to a drug shipment. Javier Gómez is a former member of the Casuales, a criminal group with which Moreno had also been associated.