A 71-year-old retiree from Malaga was arrested for trying to set fire to the place where he had worked for more than 25 years – he managed to set fire to a container -. He is under investigation by the national police for attacking the company ship, in which chemicals and flammable products were stored which could have caused greater damage.
The notification to the police was made by the owner of the injured businesswho told officers how a former worker had threatened to “burn everything down,” provincial police reported in a news release.
The intervention of the agents began after being informed by room 091 to go to a warehouse in the industrial zone of El Viso, where apparently Someone threatened to start a fire.
After this first service, during which the agents identified the parties involved in the alleged threats, there was a new opinion linked to the previous one, alert of a positive fire in some containers next to the aforementioned warehouse.
Once there, the business owner directly referred to a former employee, who had previously threatened to kill him. burn and destroy the ship he worked onexpressing their intention to file a complaint for such events.
During the investigations, a radio patrol call sign from the Local Citizen Security Brigade located the former employee near the scene of the fire, inside a vehicle and in possession of up to seven lighters which were seized.
After identification, The suspect spontaneously confessed the facts to the officers, also assuring that he would not stop until he had “burned everything”. Ultimately, this retiree was arrested and charged with the offenses of serious threats, arson and damage.
