Agents from the Aragon Police Headquarters arrested four young people between 18 and 20 years old as alleged perpetrators of the crime of attempted homicide in the center of Zaragoza.
The events occurred on November 2, around 6:40 a.m., in a leisure establishment on Ricla Street. Several people alerted CIMACC 091 of a brutal attack which took place at the door of a nightclub.
When officers from the Provincial Citizen Security Brigade arrived on the scene, they found the victim, aged 23, with an open fracture to his leg, who said he had been attacked by several young people while leaving the premises. The attack included blows with a large knife and broken bottles.
One of the witnesses corroborated the facts and indicated that the alleged attackers They fled in a vehiclerecorded by security cameras in the area. The victim had to be treated urgently by medical services and transferred to Miguel Servet Hospital with a blow to the back of the head and an open fracture of the proximal tibia, requiring surgery.
The investigation was carried out by agents of the Homicide Group of this General Directorate, who, after questioning the victim at the hospital, recognized that he knew one of the authors, years before they had a falling outalso causing several bodily injuries on this occasion.
The police verified that, in fact, The victim was also the victim of another brawl that occurred in January 2022, On this occasion, a 17-year-old young man was arrested for injury.
Continuing investigations to clarify this attack, agents identified the other three perpetrators, verifying how On the day of the event, the four were inside this premises on Ricla Street.. These are four young people aged 18 to 20, who were arrested on November 5 as presumed responsible for the crime of attempted murder.
Timeline of events
The alleged perpetrators remained together near the premises for more than an hour, while waiting for the victim to come out, since one of them was doing surveillance work.
When the victim left the establishment, these four people followed him and They started to brutally attack him with a big knife, severely hitting all parts of his body, including his head.
The alleged perpetrators, after the attack, quickly fled the scene in a car.direction Cortés de Aragón. Both the witnesses and the victim herself provided the police with a very detailed description of her appearance and clothing.
The vigilant attitude of the four detainees for more than an hour outside the establishment and their immediate intervention after the victim’s departure demonstrates a premeditation of the attack.
They took advantage of the opportune moment to execute the attack by choosing the right place and taking advantage of their numerical superiority and the use of potentially dangerous means to secure an attack.
The detainees were handed over this Thursday to the disposal of the judicial authority, the investigating court in office.
