A machine distributes the rubbish at the common rubbish dump in the municipality of Pinto KIKE PARA
Frightening words appear on the long table of the Governing Council of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. “Body Search”. “Crime”. “Remains”. It happened on July 20, at the last meeting of the politicians’ conclave before the summer holidays, and this unexpected event confronted Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s advisors with a court ruling: the Supreme Court forced them to pay 1.4 million euros Approve the management company of the Pinto landfill as compensation for costs incurred in searching for the remains of one of the victims of the Majadahonda dismemberer. That happened in 2015. It was seven years of waiting with a million dollar bill outstanding. And an unsolved mystery about the two murdered women.
It is known who the victims of Bruno Hernández (1984) were: first his aunt; and years later his tenant. One of the key tools in fact is also known: a Braher industrial grinder, model P-22, bought in 2008 for 1,189.5 euros. It also showed the killer, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, trying to cover his tracks. She said that she had moved away from her aunt and she told the other relatives that she didn’t want to hear from them anymore. She ousted her tenant by writing a letter informing her employer that she was quitting her job; and traveled to Barcelona with his cellphone to try to mislead investigators and loved ones.
However, the remains of the two women were never found, despite the mobilization of the operators of the Pinto landfill. The first had been dead for years, according to investigators. And finding the remains of the second among the 20,000 tons of garbage was an impossible mission.
“In both cases, the violent deaths of the two women are confirmed by the biological remains found in the shredding machine found in the basement of Calle Sacedilla 6 in Majadahonda and, in the case of Adriana, by the traces of blood found on the walls, floor and ceiling of the aforementioned house were found, all this despite the fact that the bodies had not been discovered “, details the judgment of the Provincial Court of Madrid, which sentenced the accused to 27 years in prison in 2017, a decision that was made in 2018 ratified by the Supreme Court. “The convicted person made the bodies disappear by hiding them in an unknown location because the industrial meat grinder was powerful and capable of grinding meat and bones,” the verdict adds. “A search was then carried out between May 28 and December 22, 2015 at the Pinto landfill for Adriana’s body with no positive result as it was a crushed body. The cost of this search was 1,446,698.40 euros”.
Why did it take almost a decade for the Autonomous Community of Madrid to pay the 1.4 million euros it cost to search for the remains at the Pinto landfill? What explains this delay in compensation for hiring new staff to speed up work and the possibility of an afternoon shift to speed up investigations?
The regional government’s Directorate-General for Justice and Security refused to pay, arguing that the costs should be included in the cost estimate to be made on the day of the trial so that whoever was convicted would take responsibility. An argument that the private landfill company, which acted on the basis of a court order, was not able to convince. In February of this year, the judiciary agreed with him: the state administration must bear the costs for the search for the landfill, since these are necessary expenses for operation, commissioning and the achievement of administrative goals.
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Otherwise, the judgment states, those who have complied with their obligation to cooperate with the judges or courts would suffer “serious damage, consisting in non-payment or indefinite delay in paying costs that are not legally bearable, especially it is the duty of the competent administration to use all the means at its disposal to ensure the proper functioning of the administration of justice,” stresses the Court.
During the trial, the killer’s partner described a man severely affected by his mental illness and convinced that he belonged to the secret brotherhood of the emergency room, such as Esperanza Aguirre, Silvio Berlusconi, David Cameron or Teresa May. This is also the portrait that the book “The Brotherhood of Evil” by journalist Cruz Morcillo. Of the 27 years to which he is sentenced, seven years have already passed. The same time that landfill company Pinto is waiting for the community to pay it to hire new employees and set up an afternoon shift to locate one of its victims.
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