[News]The sad end of the murderers who perpetrated the Puerto Hurraco crime

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The gates of hell opened after sunset on a Sunday, August 26, 1990, at twilight. The ideal time to take the chair out in the cool or have a good account of a cold beer in Puerto Hurraco, a district of Benquerencia, after a torrid summer day. When the hands of the clock had already passed ten at night in the lands of Badajoz, two armed figures dressed in hunting clothes cut the horizon through Carrera Street, the largest in a town of less than two hundred residents , the same number of people who filled a university lecture hall without difficulty before the pandemic.

To satisfy their desire for revenge, Antonio and Emilio Izquierdo (53 and 58 years old) unleashed a torrent of fire on the men, women and children of the town. His mantra: to end the one that had been the enemy clan for four decades due to a problem of boundaries and terroirs. Like them, their post cartridges (made up of a dozen lead pellets each) had no mercy and took the lives of several members of the Cabanillas family; among them, two adolescents of just 13 and 14 years old who had just said goodbye to one of their friends before going out to the main street. Although, in the end, on their way to hell they made no distinction and left 9 dead and 15 injured.

 

Not even the Civil Guard couple who went to Puerto Hurraco could stop that bleeding. It took until the next morning and a search that included two hundred agents and several helicopters for the authorities to catch them. Let the people suffer now as I have suffered, they affirmed when they were handcuffed. From then on, a new journey began for this couple: the one that took them from cell to cell until their life ended. Emilio's, in 2006 due to natural causes; Antonio's, four springs later, when he took his life in prison. He has hanged himself in his cell in the Badajoz prison nursing module, where he was being held, ABC wrote at the time.

 

                           

Before, his two sisters, Luciana and Angela, had already left this world in the guts of a psychiatric hospital, accused of having poisoned the minds of murderers and, in practice, of being the puppeteers of barbarism. Argument that, although the judge rejected it in 1994, when Antonio and Emilio were sentenced to 345 years in prison each, some of the residents of Monterrubio de la Serena, where they resided, signed. I worked in a pub and they lived above it. They were paranoid, total paranoid. Some depressions ... What if they heard constant noises ... What if religious fanaticism ... I think they were well played, confirmed an anonymous witness during an interview with Televisión Española.

 

Since then, Puerto Hurraco has been described by many as the latest crime in black Spain. A statement that Christian Borja Campos, journalist specialized in events and press coordinator of the SOSDesaparecidos Association does not share. It is likely that it is described as such by the type and context of the crime: that Spain wrapped in plans for the future that suddenly returned to show resentful and ancestral. Even so, I consider that Puerto Hurraco was not the last crime in black Spain. Already in the nineties there were others that shocked society, such as the so-called Almansa exorcism, which occurred the following month, the triple crime of Alcàsser or the murders of Anabel Segura and Rocío Wanninkhof, he explains to ABC.

 

They outlined a plan of extermination of the greatest number of people based on an affective and social impoverishment that determined the contempt for human life.

What he does agree on is that this barbarism shook society. The crimes of Emilio and Antonio Izquierdo once again exposed the vengeful character that has caused so much suffering throughout our history. A cainism that, as the writer Enrique Llamas, author of the novel "Los Caín" points out: “is fought with empathy and from education”. Precisely what those responsible for this tragedy lacked.

 

Of the same opinion is Juan S. Rada, a well-versed journalist for the mythical newspaper El Caso (the one that brought the chronicle of events to all of Spain for almost half a century), former director of various media and author of several works on criminology and black chronicles . Not only that, but he is a supporter, as was the judge, that Emilio and Antonio cooked their revenge in cold blood and, therefore, they were not crazy; argument they tried to raise to make a feint to prison. The killers were proven to have normal intelligence. They outlined a plan to exterminate the greatest number of people based on an affective and social impoverishment that led to contempt for human life, he explains to ABC. The full interview with this expert can be read at the end of the article.