Agrees to three years in prison the accused of stabbing nine times his flatmate in Arta

PalmaThe man accused of attempting to kill his roommate with a knife in Artà in July 2025 is close to reaching an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office to accept a three-year prison sentence for the crime of attempted homicide. The deal remains pending confirmation that the defendant has paid the 6,000 euros claimed as civil liability.

The parties were summoned this Monday for a preliminary hearing at the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands, but the agreement will be finalized in the coming days, once the payment of the compensation is confirmed. According to the Public Prosecutor's indictment, the events took place on the afternoon of July 23 of last year at the home that the accused and the victim shared in Artà. The defendant entered the bathroom where his roommate was and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife.

The victim managed to get rid of the attacker and make him leave the room, but the man returned and dealt him eight more stab wounds in different parts of his body. Despite his injuries, the victim managed to flee the house and reach a medical center. During the journey, he covered his wounds with napkins provided by a neighbor. Subsequently, he was transferred to the Hospital de Manacor, where he was admitted.

The mitigating factor of mental impairment

The Public Prosecutor's Office considers that, at the time of the events, the accused had their intellectual and volitional faculties slightly impaired due to the paranoid schizophrenia they suffer from. For this reason, it acknowledges the mitigating circumstance of mental impairment, which is taken into account in the plea bargain.