One of Pau Rigo's robbers, convicted of kidnapping a man in Palma

PalmOne of the robbers of Pau Rigo, a man who killed one of the assailants in his home, and five other people have been sentenced this Thursday to four years in prison for kidnapping and assaulting another man for demanding money from him in Palma.

The parties reached an agreement this Thursday in the First Section of the Provincial Court, and the six defendants were ultimately sentenced to three years in prison for unlawful detention—they were initially accused of kidnapping—and one year for the crime of assault with a dangerous weapon, according to Europa Press. The prosecution had initially sought a 14-year prison sentence for each of the defendants for events that occurred on November 9, 2024.

The defendants admitted that they went to the victim's home and convinced him to go to the residence of one of them, where the other defendants were waiting. Once at the residence, the assailants began to beat him, some with a hammer and an iron bar, while demanding information about money and threatening to kill him. The now-convicted men gagged and tied him up and took him outside the property with the intention of killing him. At that moment, the police arrived and freed him. Before the trial, the defendants deposited €10,000 as compensation for damages, a situation that was taken into account as a mitigating factor. The Public Prosecutor's Office withdrew the aggravating circumstance of abuse of power from its charges.