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Andreu Colll, the young man from Mallorca who murdered his father imitating his favorite video game

Andreu Colll, the young man from Mallorca who murdered his father imitating his favorite video game

"Let's see what is in the safe, male, I'm waiting for the locksmith to open it ... I don't want to get excited".Three days after killing his father, on June 30, 2013, Andreu Coll Tur, 18, was impatient to enjoy the inheritance of the Mallorcan businessman with his friend Francisco Abas Rodríguez, a 20 -year -old Zaragozano, a student ofsanitary transport, whom he had met online and helped him commit the crime.

"Hala, uncle! I'm going to miss it.When your mother sees what there is, Mogollón is going to be happy, "Abas encouraged him by phone."I'll take you a photo," Coll promised him from his father's villa.Son of separate parents, Coll was the only one of three brothers who lived with his parent, Andreu Coll Bennàssar, in Alaró (Mallorca).The father had put much interest in the child not followed by the example of his two brothers and ended his studies.Although the young man wanted to prepare the oppositions to be a policeman, he ended up working as a personal assistant in his father's company.

"I wanted to live better"

Before, in 2010, he left for his mother's house to be with him.He did it "because he wanted to live better and with her he didn't have so much money".The kid complained to his father that his mother did not bought him clothes and made him put on the one who was being small to his older brother.With a heritage of about 50 million euros, Coll Bennàssar owned a company of slot machines and a real estate in Mallorca.It also possessed a hundred properties distributed throughout Spain.

Abas said he acted "for love", that Coll promised him that they would have "a lot of money to live together, even as friends"

Andreu Coll Bennàsar, murdered by his son in Alaró (Mallorca).Diario de Mallorca

Broken relationships with his ex -wife and his other two children, he had just carried out all the procedures to disinherit them and read the young Andreu all his assets, which influenced the young man to carry out his plan, according to the researchers.Two years ago, when I was 16, Andreu Coll had met Francisco Abas playing a video game online, Call of Duty.Both shared their love for war games and marathon days passed up to fourteen hours a day in front of the console.As Zaragozano is presented as 'Tacticomen', an alias after which, according to his own profile as a player, he hid "a killing machine".

Both young people soon formed a team and became friends, communicated through the PlayStation microphone and also by Skype.In 2012, Coll traveled to the Peninsula to see Abas and he returned the visit shortly after.Like the Zaragozano, the Mallorcan had few friends, according to a family neighbor: "The boys of the town do not want to go with me because my father is rich".So he found a brother "with whom to share his confidences.For his part, Zaragozano saw in Coll "an unrequited love", to which he had even declared: "I told him that he was in love with him, but he replied that he liked the girls".

Somnifers in a cake

Andreu Coll, el joven de Mallorca que asesinó a su padre imitando su videojuego favorito

Two weeks before the crime, Coll raised Abas "to do something" to his father.He told him about the businessman's millionaire heritage and promised that after crime they would live together "as friends".On June 26, 2013, Abas traveled to Mallorca to spend a season at Casa del Chico, where they shared a room and bed.Two days later, they tried to kill the businessman without success.They introduced several sleeping pills in a cake that was offered for dinner and, half an hour after they fell asleep, they entered their room.

Abas was a blow with a wooden bat, while the son lit him with a flashlight.But the father woke up and both fled before he could see more than "a man hitting him with something", as his sister Margarita told the next day.The man shouted for his son and Abas, thinking that a strang.However, the businessman began to suspect: "I have come to think that it was Andreu.As I have crushed them this week, making them stay to work, maybe they have crossed the cables and want to put a whore, "he told their sister after the aggression.And he added a detail that did not make it unnoticed to this: "As they have a stick there in bed that sometimes they play with him...".

40 blows

The next day, the businessman's son and his friend tried again, and this time his plan turned out.The man arrived home at one o'clock in the morning.His son asked him to go to the room, on the second floor, to look at something on his mobile phone.Then, the friend of the young Andreu gave the father of this the first of the forty blows that ended his life.He did it from behind, with a wooden bat with four nails of ten centimeters at one end, which Andreu Coll had manufactured imitating the gun of a zombies video game called Dead Rising 2, which the two young women used to play.

A rolex, a ring and 12.000 euros

Both declared that they waited for the victim to stop breathing and then shower, washed the body with the garden hose and changed clothes.Then they took a rolex, a gold ring and a briefcase with 12.000 euros in cash, to simulate a robbery and dragged the body to the car, a Land Rover SUV where, hours later, two neighbors found the body on a road in Bunyola, 15 kilometers from Alaró.An acquaintance saw them returning to the chalet about four in the morning at the Audi TT that Coll's father had given his son.

Andreu Coll and Francisco Abas (in the photo next to the Audi TT that Coll's father gave to this one).Diario de Mallorca

Three days after the crime, the Civil Guard listened to how the two young men argued by phone about the distribution of Coll's father's inheritance: "We will be thrown out of the company and the money is going to be distributed in three piles: for mytwo brothers and for me, "Coll told Abas."Well, it shouldn't be so, huh?", The Zaragozano complained."Nothing happens, Fran, there is much," Mallorquin replied.But his friend was not calm: "I think your aunt knows something," he suspected."He knows nothing.Don't talk about this here, Fran, "Coll warned him.

A broken pact

After being arrested, the two broke their "covenant of silence" and ended up confessing.The business of the businessman tried to justify the murder of his father claiming that he "psychologically mistreated him," especially at work: "I criticized me in front of others and humiliated me, he said it was useless, a social waste and forced me toWork more hours saying that the family is the family ".

Abas said that he acted "for love", that Coll promised him that they would have "a lot of money to live together, even if it were only like friends", and that he did everything he asked him.In addition, he subtracted importance from his friend's version: "Andreu argued a lot with his father, they were not humiliation, but if Andreu left home, his father would take away everything.The only solution was to kill him ".

17'5 and 16'5 years in jail

Coll and Abas were sentenced to 17 and a half years and 16 years and a half, respectively.Before the judge, they ended up apologizing for the crime.They are still in prison.As he has been open, they have not enjoyed any exit permit in these years.Psychiatric reports concluded that the two murderers had no disorder or hallucination derived from the massive consumption of video games and that they were aware of their actions when they planned the crime and committed it.

The forensics defined Coll as a "cold and intelligent, dominant" person and stressed the hatred he felt towards his parent, especially since he evicted the mother and brothers of Andreu, in October 2012: "I wantedMy father, but when we were not at the office or at home.I wanted it when we were at my grandfather's house or in the car.I have always loved my mother more, "he said.

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