A shot for 5,000 euros: The confession of the Olympic Village killer to the crime does not reveal who ordered him to shoot.

BarcelonaValentín Moreno was 18 years old the night he killed 24-year-old Carlos Javier Robledo. After a night of partying, Moreno and his friends left a jacket on the floor of a parking lot and beat to death the first person who touched it. That crime, on April 1, 2000, earned him the nickname "the Olympic Village killer" and eight years of confinement in a juvenile center. He was only hours away from adult jurisdiction like the other six convicted for the crime. 21 years later, on November 18, 2021, Moreno was executed in Sant Adrià de Besòs, shot in the back from a bicycle.

This Thursday, a man indicted himself before a jury at the Barcelona Court of Appeals, explaining that he received €5,000 to travel from Colombia with a companion and execute him. However, the man accused of facilitating and being an accomplice in the murder claimed that he does not recognize him and defended himself by saying that he only assisted in a drug exchange.

In the initial phase of the trial, prosecutor Félix Martín had already announced that he was willing to reduce the sentences he was seeking—25 and 31 years—appealing to the "humanity" of the accused to explain "who was behind and who gave the order to kill" Valentín Moreno. Despite the fact that the investigation indicates that the execution was related "to the criminal world in which Moreno worked," linked in the Casuales, a criminal group known in the cityThe prosecution has failed to bring to justice the individuals who allegedly gave the order. Neither have the two defendants revealed this, despite the prosecutor's offer.

Since his arrest in Colombia in 2024, Daniel Alejandro Díaz had maintained his innocence. With Thursday's confession, he is attempting to reduce the 25-year prison sentence he faces. Another suspect, whom investigators have been unable to locate, had also traveled from Medellín with him. The investigation has failed to clarify who the perpetrator was, and at the last minute, Díaz stated that he was the one who fired a single shot into the back of Valentín Moreno's head.

According to Díaz, it was a friend from Medellín—Alexander, the suspect who was never located—who suggested they take on a job together to travel to Barcelona and conduct "a follow-up for a monetary debt." The job ended up being executed at the last minute, according to the defendant, who claims he had no idea what he would end up getting and felt "forced" to do it.

A former member of the Casuales put them in touch.

Díaz shares the dock, separated by two Mossos d'Esquadra officers, with Sergio Gutiérrez, who was allegedly paid to be "the link" between the masterminds and perpetrators. Gutiérrez gesticulated in disbelief as he listened to Díaz accuse him of providing everything necessary to kill Valentín Moreno: the quartermaster's office, addresses, cell phones, vehicles, the weapon they used, and the bike from which he fired, which is now being presented as evidence in the trial. He also detailed how Gutiérrez showed him and Alexander all the places Valentín Moreno frequented, such as the bar where he used to meet with his friends, and where he was about to arrive when he was executed.

When it was his turn, Gutiérrez denied having ever seen the other defendant, who had just pointed him out, but did admit to having met with Alexander. Gutiérrez's exculpatory version implicates one of the witnesses who will testify at Friday's trial: Javier Gómez, known by the nickname Javidubi, a former member of the Casuales.

According to the defendant, during a time of financial hardship after serving a sentence for drug trafficking, he turned to Javidubi for help getting back into drug dealing to make money. Javidubi is said to have put him in touch with Alexander, but according to the defendant, it wasn't to carry out an execution, but rather to help him receive a drug shipment that was scheduled to arrive at the port from Colombia.