John Musetescu Werberg, during the popular jury trial for three murders in Barcelona. Albert Garcia
John Musetescu Werberg, the young Swede who killed three people in less than an hour in the center of Barcelona on January 20, 2020, is serving a 95-year sentence for the three murders.
To that sentence must be added another one that has just been handed down by a court in Barcelona.
Musetescu has been sentenced to one year in prison and to pay a fine of 2,930 euros for attacking five prison officials, according to the sentence to which EL PAÍS has accessed.
The attack occurred while he was in preventive detention awaiting trial in Brians 2 (Sant Esteve Sesrovires), where he was involved in various violent incidents while refusing to receive his family, who traveled on several occasions from Uppsala (Sweden) to meet with him, try to help him with the criminal process and seek an explanation for some murders whose motive remains a mystery.
On the morning of May 22, 2022, Musetescu wrapped the respirator plate in cell number 13 of the Special Closed Regime Department (DERT) around his arm, the maximum security one, reserved for dangerous prisoners.
When two officials entered to move him from his cell, the young man gave “a strong kick against the chest” of one of the workers and caused a cut with the metal plate on his forearm;
On the second, he hit him “several punches.”
Four other officials then burst into the cell to help their colleagues and were also attacked in an episode of enormous violence: Musetescu delivered “indiscriminate punches and kicks” that caused wounds and injuries of varying degrees.
The sentence has been handed down by the 28th Criminal Court of Barcelona in accordance with Musetescu, who accepted being the author of the attacks.
The young man “directly, materially and voluntarily carried out the acts” and has assumed a sentence of one year in prison for the crime of attacking law enforcement officers and economic penalties for five crimes of injuries (one classified as “less serious” and others four of “minor” crimes).
In addition to the prison sentence, he has been sentenced to pay a fine of 2,450 euros in compensation for the damage caused to the first official (the one who received the kicks and the cut on the forearm) and another 480 euros for the injuries to two others. workers.
The prison union CSIF regrets that no lawyer from the Generalitat attended the trial to advise the officials.
The outbreak of violence in prison is reminiscent of what he also suffered on the afternoon of January 20, 2020, when he killed three people in less than an hour in Barcelona.
He first inflicted more than 250 stab wounds on the body of Héctor Núñez, 30, in his apartment, tried to set fire to the house to get rid of the body, and fled across the balcony.
While fleeing from him, he killed two other people.
He found Rosa Díaz, 77, in a doorway and brutally attacked her in the head.
And David Caminada, 52, was stabbed twice in the chest when he was leaving work at Barcelona City Hall.
He put up great resistance to his arrest.
One of the debates at the trial was to evaluate whether Musetescu was mentally competent.
The Prosecutor's Office maintained that he did (even though he did not find reasons to explain the crimes) and the popular jury declared him guilty.
Although he had suffered from mental illness in Sweden and was addicted to pharmacological substances and cocaine, the triple murderer was always aware of what he was doing, according to the jury.
At trial, however, he maintained erratic and defiant behavior (he spat at his father when he approached him), refused to have his mental health used as grounds for acquittal, and said he was being victim of an unfair process.
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