Sequence of images from the judicial summary of the pitched battle of Badalona that ended with the death of Ammad Tanveer.
"They have done me a lot of damage," Ammad Tanveer was right to say to his friend Hassan Ali as he lay dying on the platform of the La Salut metro station in Badalona.
He had deep cuts on his head, chest, back, right arm, and left thigh.
Too many to keep breathing.
A month after turning 18, dressed in a Barça tracksuit, Ammad died the victim of a pitched battle between rival Pakistani groups to which he was dragged by a friend of his brothers, Ali Cheema, a drug dealer who wanted to seize from a narco apartment in Barcelona.
The three Tanveer brothers were at home, in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona, when they received the call from Ali Cheema.
It was the afternoon of Sunday, October 27, 2019. Cheema encouraged them to accompany him to Badalona to "talk" with some Pakistani boys from the area and "fix a problem";
the more they went, the better, because that way they would "put pressure on," one of the brothers, Amir, would later declare.
The Tanveers went to the La Sagrera metro station, where Cheema and, to his surprise, several other young people whom they did not know were waiting for them.
"I was surprised to see so many people, but he insisted that they were only going to talk," the other brother who came out of the fight, Saad, would detail before the judge.
When they arrived at the Gorg stop and went out into the street, about twenty compatriots from the Badalona group were already waiting for them in an open field.
They were prepared for war, "heavily armed with axes, wooden and metal sticks, crowbars, machetes and axes," the Prosecutor's Office recounts in its indictment.
Ali Cheema pulled out a cricket bat (Pakistan's national sport), slammed it defiantly against the ground, called for his people to get ready, and quickened his pace, ready for a clash.
The others followed him at a run.
But at the last moment, Cheema braked and turned, exposing the Tanveers and Hassan Ali, who were in the front row and got the worst of it.
When Amir fell to the ground, the brothers came to help him.
Ammad, the minor, measured 1.85.
He was a strong and stout boy.
They could not bring him down, so they stabbed him in a "vile, disproportionate way, with disregard for suffering," according to the prosecutor.
They did the same with his friend Hassan Ali, until they somehow managed to escape, they went back down the stairs of the subway and ran away.
The security guards treated them at the La Salut station, from where Ammad would no longer come out alive despite efforts to revive him.
Agents collect samples from the Badalona brawl on October 27.Joan Sánchez
After hearing the news, the father, Hussain Tanveer, wanted to return his son's body to Gujranwala, a city in Punjab -the province from which most Pakistanis residing in Spain come from- famous for being the cradle of champions as soon as possible. of a fighting mode.
He got it after insisting to the judge and with the help of the Pakistani consul, who recalled in a letter that his mission is to help the subjects of that country "in life and in death."
The trial for the crime of Ammad Tanveer begins on February 17 in Barcelona before a popular jury.
The Prosecutor's Office requests 62 and a half years in prison for each of the 14 accused of the Badalona group for a completed murder and three attempted murders (the other Tanveer and Hassan Ali were seriously injured).
Prosecutor Teresa Yoldi concludes that everyone must answer for the facts regardless of who caused the injuries because they acted "jointly and in a group", following "a preconceived plan" that sought to kill as many rivals as possible.
The attack was "brutal and ruthless", the letter insists, and was led by Bilal Ahmad, a 19-year-old boy who arrived from Italy who in a few months had accumulated a record for illegal occupations,
massive fights (he was arrested with a machete with a 43-centimeter blade) and drug trafficking.
The Barcelona group was largely "unarmed and unprotected" and was "unrelated to the intentions" of the attackers, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
The victim's brother: "He used us"
The investigation by the Mossos d'Esquadra, to which EL PAÍS has accessed, reveals the background to the dispute.
Although the statements of those involved are often exculpatory or reveal contradictions, what does seem clear is that Ali Cheema - who according to witnesses left for France after the pitched battle - knew how the meeting was going to unfold.
Before the judge, Saad Tanveer clarified that a few months earlier, in May, the ringleader had participated in a knife fight on the Rambla de Barcelona "for control of the territory" in the drug trafficking business.
His brother Amir recounted an episode that occurred the night before the battle.
Cheema took them to a street in Raval and, under number 13, "began to shout and insult" two Pakistanis who were on the balcony.
“He used us,” declared Amir,
Hassan Ali, the wounded man who remained with the deceased minor until the end, explained that hours before the pitched battle his ex-brother-in-law -had a restraining order for mistreating his sister- had also warned him: "He told me not to go to Badalona because they were going to give us a beating.
I told him that I didn't care, that I would not leave my friends.
The fight was going to take place, according to what he thought at the time, “over a girl”.
He learned the real reason after recovering from his injuries in the hospital: Cheema "wanted to take control of a drug sales point in a flat in the Paral·lel area", a
narco
-flat that, until then, had been in the hands of the Badalona group.
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