Barcelona, June 26 (EFE) the crime was perpetrated.
In the ninth section of the Barcelona Court, the trial against Carmen Badia began today, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for fifteen years in prison for having set fire to an apartment where she had been a tenant, days after the body of Anna Permanyer was found. , supposedly with the purpose of eliminating any trace of the crime.
Badia, along with his friend Joan Sesplugues, is serving a 24-year prison sentence for the murder and extortion of the psychologist Anna Permanyer, whose body was found on October 7, 2004 in a field near Sitges (Barcelona), although it was believes that the crime was perpetrated in apartment 11-E of the Atalaya building in Barcelona.
Precisely, Carmen Badia had lived for rent in that apartment, owned by a lawyer who advised her on financial matters, and when the crime occurred, she had her residence on the 18-J floor of the same block, which belonged to the psychologist Anna Permanyer.
In the trial that began today, Badia has broken the silence that he maintained during the investigation of the case and has denied that he caused the fire in apartment 11-E, which the firefighters managed to put out in just half an hour after breaking the front door. since it was locked.
The defendant, who has insisted that she did not keep any keys to that apartment, has argued in court that it would be “foolish” on her part to have caused the fire, taking into account that at that time she was being investigated by the police and that the fire would only attract his attention.
As an alibi, Permanyer’s murderer has assured that at the time the fire occurred, she had met to go shopping and have lunch with a friend who was celebrating her saint on October 15, the day of Saint Teresa.
To verify Carmen Badia’s alibi, the Prosecutor’s Office had summoned the person who was her lawyer and owner of the burned apartment to testify, but he has not appeared as a witness, for which the court has imposed a penalty of 200 euros and summoned him to attend tomorrow’s session, with the corresponding legal warnings.
In any case, the concierge of the Atalaya building, who has testified as a witness, has denied that Carmen Badia gave him one of the keys to the 11-E floor when he left the house, which prevented him from opening the door to facilitate the entry of the fire brigade when the fire broke out.
Adding more intrigue about the whereabouts of the keys was the domestic employee who was in charge of cleaning the burned-out apartment and also that of the defendant, who explained that in mid-October her backpack was stolen with all the games she had for enter the houses where he worked.
In the trial, which will conclude tomorrow, two of the firefighters who participated in the firefighting tasks have also testified, who have corroborated that the fire started in two different sources, which suggests that it was provoked. EFE.
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