A witness dismantles the alibi of Xavi Jiménez, investigated for killing Helena Jubany

The judicial fence continues to tighten around Xavi Jimenez, the only person accused of the murder of Helena Jubany, a crime that the victim’s family has been trying to solve for more than 20 years. This Friday in court Sabadellwhere the robe Juan Diaz Villar instructs the case reopened at the end of 2021, a witness has testified who has disassembled a fundamental part of the Jimenez’s alibi: where was he on friday afternoon November 30, 2001when the trace of the victim is lost and it is suspected that she was kidnapped by the individuals who ended up throwing her into the void from a roof, half naked and druggedearly Sunday, December 2, 2001.

The defendant and Jaume Sanllehí, both friends and members of the nature section of the Unió Esportiva de Sabadell (UES), contradicted each other in front of the police, a few days after Jubany’s death, when they had just begun investigations that have not yet They are over. Questioned by the investigators about where he was when Jubany disappeared, Sanllehí explained that on that Friday he had been in Barcelona taking some beers with some friends. Then, and in the opposite direction, Jiménez told the agents of the National Police that he had spent that afternoon in the company of Sanllehí, preparing a UES excursion that took place the following day, Saturday, December 1, 2001.

Upon leaving that statement, both friends realized the contradiction, and Sanllehí voluntarily went to the police station the next day to withdraw his first statement and match it with Jiménez’s alibi: He excused himself and maintained that on the afternoon of November 30 he had not been in Barcelona but, as Jiménez had said, at the UES facilities, preparing the excursion to Artés together with him.

Sanllehí was in Barcelona

This Friday, more than 20 years later, a friend of Sanllehí declared in court that he stated that on that Friday, November 30, Sanllehí was not in Sabadell, but with him in Barcelona. In other words, the first version that he gave in his Sanllehí day was the correct one.

Sanllehí’s friend has detailed that they had the habit of meeting every friday at cafeteria zurich from Barcelona and drink beers by two or three bars in the area. According to Benet Salellasthe lawyer who defends the interests of the Jubany family, this friend of Sanllehí, who contacted them after seeing the chapters that ‘Crims‘ dedicated to the murder of Jubany, has now declared that he remembers that they were together because that particular Friday they were celebrating his birthday.

With this statement, the investigation has managed to throw a new clue about Jiménez, who is charged and with precautionary measures for this cause: he does not have a passport and must go to the court every month to sign. “There is sufficient evidence to support the assertion that Xavi Jimenez actively participated in the commission of the crime of murder of Helena JubanyWith this forcefulness Judge Díaz Villar expressed himself last April in an order written after listening to Jiménez and formally charging him for the murder of the 27-year-old librarian.

The UES is silent

This Friday he was also summoned to testify Francesc Macia, current president of the nature section of the UES and who held the same position in 2001. Macià, according to the telephone records of landlines –not of the mobile phones that it has not been possible to consult–, spoke with all the people investigated in this death in the days after the events. According to the lawyer Salellas, Macià, who has avoided the graphic press that has stood guard in front of the court, has hidden behind a lack of memory to detail in front of the judge why those calls between the members of a group took place. In the family’s opinion, this group, at best, knows much more than it is telling and, at worst, is directly involved in Jubany’s murder.

New genetic sample

The National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences recently notified the National Police that a hyssop well preserved with biological samples obtained from Jubany’s genitals during the forensic examination carried out on him in 2001. The judge has ordered that this new sample be analyzed in case it appears genetic material from third parties.

The discovery has occurred while trying to re-analyze a substance that was extracted from the victim’s genitals and that in its day it could simply be concluded that it was neither semen nor vaginal fluid. However, 20 years later, this substance could not be analyzed because it was too deteriorated. Yes, it has allowed, unexpectedly, to find a swab that may provide new information thanks to scientific advances.

The investigation is also pending completion of the analysis of the samples of genetic material that were obtained a few months ago from the clothes that Jubany was wearing on the day of his death. On his jersey it looked like DNA from two people. Presumably one of them would be Jubany herself. To check who could be the second, the judge ordered that it be contrasted with Jiménez’s material. There are no results yet.

If it matched Jiménez’s DNA, it would have produced the most conclusive evidence to date. In case it does not match, Salellas has advanced that he plans to ask the judge to contrast it with the DNA of Santi Lachurcha friend of Jiménez and who, according to National Police investigators, was the main suspect in the case in 2001.

the anonymous

Helena Jubany received two anonymous letters shortly before she was murdered (the September, 17th from 2001 and the October 9, 2001). The National Police considers that the author of these anonymous is Jiménez. Both anonymous were accompanied by soft drinks: horchata and orange juice. The judge points out in his writ that Jiménez knew that Jubany loved horchata because he had had that drink with her on previous occasions.

The second anonymous letter was delivered to Helena’s house on a day when there is no evidence that Jiménez, then employed by the Barcelona Provincial Council, went to his place of work.

The content of the anonymous ones detailed clues, such as that its author wanted to study English or that he wanted to coincide with Jubany on another excursion with her from the Sabadell Excursionist Union (UES), made Helena suspect that Jiménez could be behind them and so she told a friend. Both Jubany and Jiménez were members of the UES and the second fell in love with her and tried to seduce her without success, an attempt that generated a distance between them, as the accused recognized this Friday and the judge highlights in the car.

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There is a clear link between the anonymous and Helena’s murder given that traces of benzodiazepine were found in the soft drinks they included, the same sleeping pill that was found in the body of the victim and that was used to sedate her and throw her unconscious from the roof of the building on Carrer de Calvet d’Estrella from Sabadell.

Jiménez also knew the place where Jubany lived, who, a native of Mataró, had recently settled in Sabadell. Likewise, the content of the anonymous letters coincides with that of the emails that Jiménez sent to Jubany and in which he also referred to the UES excursions and his intention to study English.