The man who set fire to the bar "Las Postas", located on Avenida de Cádiz in the Sevillian municipality of Los Palacios y Villafranca after requesting "mayonnaise or ketchup" for his montadito and receiving a negative response from the waiters, has accepted a sentence of three and a half years in prison, despite the fact that initially the Prosecutor's Office was demanding eleven years in prison.
During the hearing, held today in the Third Section of the Provincial Court of Seville, the accused admitted before the prosecutor's questions that he sprayed the bar of the establishment with a plastic bottle full of gasoline after that negative response, being aware that at that moment the establishment was full of customers.
Based on this admission of the facts and the agreement reached among all parties regarding the account and the sentences, the Prosecutor's Office, which has made its provisional conclusions definitive, has reduced its request for a sentence from eleven to three and a half years in prison.
This reduction was influenced by the fact that the defendant paid before the trial was held, and in terms of civil liability for the damages caused, a total of 9,245 euros.
Thanks to this, a qualified mitigating factor of damage repair in relation to the crime of arson has been applied, which has also been appreciated at a lower degree and considered of lesser significance.
The accused has also accepted the payment of fines exceeding 76 euros for each of the two minor offenses of injury, linked to the injuries suffered by the waiters who were working in the bar at that time. With all this, the trial has been left pending judgment.
It is worth remembering that the owner of the business told this agency that, at first, the customer showed "normality" in the absence of both sauces.
"He asked for mayonnaise and the waiter told him no, because we don't have it. We are a bar that mainly focuses on breakfasts, in the afternoon we have drinks, coffees, and some montaditos in case someone is hungry, nothing more," detailed then the owner of the establishment, José Antonio Caballero.