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ISSUE NO. 1724
19 - 25 July 2018
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Cremation allowed High rise Judge gives go ahead as probe goes on blaze
THE judge investigating the death of Gabriel Cruz, the eight-year-old whose body was found after a 13-day search, has allowed the cremation of his remains to go ahead. Rafael Soriano, who presides over Almeria’s Court of Instruction Number Five, made the order after no objections were made to a request from Cruz’s parents Angel C r u z a n d Pa t r ic ia Ramirez. The eight-year-old’s funeral took place in March this ye a r. Ju d g e So r i an o preven t e d t h e c r e m a tio n from g o i n g a h e a d i n ca s e investigators needed to conduct further tests on the body. The lifting of the restriction on Cruz’s burial comes as Judge Soriano said the investigation into the boy’s death would end ‘shortly.’ It also follows the judge’s decision to make public some of the findings of the probe last month. Ana Julia Quezada remains the prime suspect in the case after confessing to
CREDIT: Angel Cruz and Patricia Ramirez (inset), Juan Ignacio Zoido, via Twitter (main)
by Joe Gerrard
GO AHEAD: Gabriel Cruz’s (inset) body can now be cremated. police that she was behind the killing of the eight-yearold. She later wrote open letters to the media from her prison cell in which she admitted to taking the boy’s life but claimed it was an accident. Quezada said Cruz h ad in s u lte d h er an d th a t
she had suffocated him in a fit of rage. A post mortem examination found that the eightyear-old had died of suffocation. Quezada is suspected of murdering, kidnapping and s ubje c ting C ruz to inhumane treatment.
Guardia Civil officers found the eight-year-old’s body by a well 13 days after he was first reported missing in the Las Hortichuelas area of Nijar in late February. Quezada was arrested in connection with the death shortly after and the investigation continues.
A COUPLE in Almeria have been convicted for allegedly using several apartments in a block of flats to grow marihuana, which then led to a fire. The apartments are in the area of Las Hortichuelas de Roquetas de Mar and was secretly connected up to the electrical system in order to cultivate the illegal plantation. Both defendants have been sentenced to a year in prison and a fine of €10,000 for a crime against public health, theft, and electric energy fraud. They took over three apartments, located on the third, second and ground floors, which were all hooked up to the electricity network illegally.
The fire broke out on the third floor, and the Guardia Civil are convinced that it was due to the lamps, fans and air conditioning equipment that were used to grow the marihuana. Sources suggest that the quantity of marihuana would reach a value of €6,987 on the black market. The defendants had installed a security door on the ground floor, and video surveillance equipment.