Agents of the Civil Guard arrested at dawn the author of the attack on the Santo Espíritu del Monte monastery, located in the Valencian town of Gilet, where he entered this Saturday shouting “I am Jesus Christ” and violently attacked several religious people, one of them remains hospitalized in a very serious condition.
Although last Saturday the death of this religious was reported, Benemérita sources confirm that he is still alive but that his state of health is critical. The attacker used a cane, a stick and even a glass bottle to beat the brothers.
For his part, the provincial of the Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception, Fray Joaquín Zurera Ribó, OFM, published a statement in which he recounts the event and explains that a person had entered the convent and attacked the religious who were were in their rooms. .
From the Emergency Information and Coordination Center (CICU) it was specified that around 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, they received a summons to help several brothers injured in the accident. Holy Spirit of Gilet Monasterytherefore different health resources were mobilized on site.
Concretely, a SAMU transported a 76-year-old man following a head trauma to the Clinical Hospital; while SVB units transferred three others injured due to trauma or contusions to Sagunto Hospital. They are three men aged 57, 66 and 95 years old.
The religious institution condemns this aggression and associates the suffering of the brothers, “with the wounds in the body and the pain in the soul for what they experienced, which, without a doubt, leaves a deep mark on people” .
“We also ask that the perpetrator is aware of the damage and can remedy the problem.” behavior not at all typical of the human condition. This event also asks all of us, brothers, to be more attentive to prevent the entry into our fraternities of people who could cause damage of any kind, and thus know how to take care of each other.
