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Death in the street with hammer blows to the head

2023-02-27T11:00:59.792Z


The resident of Antequera who was murdered by two young men was attacked for three nights in a row Place where Miguel Ángel Calvo, 51, was murdered with a hammer in Antequera (Málaga). Garcia-Santos (El Pais) On February 10, two hooded youths attacked Miguel Ángel Calvo, 51, while he was sleeping in the arcades of a central square in Antequera (Málaga, 41,184 inhabitants). The next morning, he discussed it with other colleagues who lived on the street because he feared it could happen again. H


Place where Miguel Ángel Calvo, 51, was murdered with a hammer in Antequera (Málaga). Garcia-Santos (El Pais)

On February 10, two hooded youths attacked Miguel Ángel Calvo, 51, while he was sleeping in the arcades of a central square in Antequera (Málaga, 41,184 inhabitants).

The next morning, he discussed it with other colleagues who lived on the street because he feared it could happen again.

He was right and the next day, Saturday, they beat him again.

They also attacked him on Sunday, only this third time they did not limit themselves to kicking him, but they gave him several blows to the head with a hammer.

"He was inside a sleeping bag and had no defense capacity," say sources from the municipality's National Police.

Her body was found shortly after, around eight in the morning, by some toilets who came to install a covid vaccination point in the area.

Hours later, the perpetrator of the murder called the police station to confess.

He was arrested along with another young man who allegedly participated in the attacks.

Both were 19 years old and are in prison.

Life had already given Miguel Ángel Calvo plenty of blows.

He was the youngest of his brothers, all residing in the Granada town of Loja.

The family comes from Fuentes de Cesna, a district belonging to the municipality of Algarinejo (Granada, 2,346 inhabitants), where they have not seen him for almost two decades, according to municipal sources.

Calvo lived a difficult youth, working whatever he could, in the fields or taking care of cattle.

He later got a job in a circus, until some problems with the law led him to move away from his environment and his family.

Finally, he ended up in Antequera —some 70 kilometers from his house— where he received help from Prolibertas, a Trinidadian foundation that fights against social exclusion.

He spent time in shelters until, without resources, he ended up on the street.

Daniel, with the green cap, and Miguel, two friends of the victim. Garcia-Santos (El Pais)

His acquaintances nicknamed him

El Americano

.

At times he parked cars to earn some coins and at other times he asked for them at the door of a downtown Mercadona.

"When we wanted to help him, he said that he didn't want anything," recalls Fernando del Pino, a resident of the municipality linked to social and volunteer movements.

This Friday, Daniel, a 52-year-old Irishman who lives in a tent on the outskirts of the municipality, complained that "a good person" had been killed.

Another of his acquaintances, Miguel, 51, recounted that they shared a beer on the benches in the Plaza Fernández Viagas, a few meters from where he was killed.

He “went to the soup kitchen every day for lunch, but he lived on the street.

He did not usually ask for help, but there were people who gave him a few euros from time to time, ”says this man from Antequera.

Like them, several homeless people gave some clues that made it easier for the National Police to quickly resolve the case.

The agents of the Antequera police station were participating in the morning meeting when a call from the Local Police alerted them to the discovery of the body, around 8:15 am.

They talked about blood and possible blows, so a member of the scientific police left the meeting to go to the arcades next to the San Zoilo library, where the body was found.

He observed injuries consistent with a violent death.

The new city commissioner, Marcos Romarís, activated the protocol for this type of crime and half the police station took to the streets.

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The citizen security patrol focused on reconstructing the last 48 hours in Calvo's life.

Some of his acquaintances explained that the victim had told them that two hooded youths had assaulted him two nights in a row, although he had not been able to recognize them.

The information allowed to have a first profile of the suspects.

The images from the security cameras of a nearby supermarket confirmed the attack, since he was seen with a black eye while he asked at the door.

The video surveillance of the area gave the second key and made it possible to determine that one of the suspects had fled towards the Valdealanes neighborhood, next to the railway station.

Several patrols focused on the area and identified each young man they encountered.

And they checked if there were traces of blood on clothes or shoes.

In the middle of the morning of that same Monday, the police station received a call.

“I know that you are looking for me and that you are going to find me.

Come, I'm here," a man told them on the other end of the phone.

He gave the address of his house —in the fenced neighborhood— and the National Police went there to arrest him.

His mother confirmed that she had arrived at six in the morning and had been "very strange" since then.

The boy spontaneously confessed to the murder and during the search of his home the hammer with which he allegedly hit the victim was found —which suggests premeditation and treachery, according to police sources— as well as articles of clothing and sneakers with traces of blood.

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, the boy in his statement assured that he had become obsessed with the victim and alleged that he suffers from a mental disorder.

He himself gave the information of the person who accompanied him, who was also arrested in the area of ​​Pasillas street.

Both are 19 years old and, after giving a statement before the Court of First Instance of Instruction number 1 of Antequera, the judge ordered their entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail, investigated for a crime of murder.

The autopsy confirmed the injuries and the agents have requested new investigative procedures —declared secret— to continue delving into the case and solve two fundamental keys in this case: what was the motivation and how many people participated.

“We know who the author was, because he confessed, but we are still not clear if the second person was there on the day of the proceedings.

What is proven is that he participated in the attacks of the previous days ”, report police sources.

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