It was 8 in the morning and Jesús Pedro had not arrived at his workplace. Although he is assigned to the general police station of the Puente de Vallecas district, he volunteered this Sunday to work voluntary overtime at the Rastro in Madrid. A colleague was surprised that the police officer, who lives near Las Rozas, had not arrived on time. Then, he saw on the news that a suicide bomber had hit a car and a motorcyclist on the A-6, and his instinct told him that it could be his colleague, who was not responding.
Unfortunately, the noncommissioned officer was right, because he managed to speak with Jesús Pedro moments before undergoing hip surgery at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital. In addition to that fracture, they had others in the femur, fibula and both ankles. “You are born again,” his subinspector told him in that brief conversation.
At the time of the accident, the driver of the kamikaze, a 25-year-old resident of Valdemorillo, was accompanied by his brother Juan Carlos and they both came to party, according to data collected by the Civil Guard. Although some sources reported on Sunday that the co-pilot was Juan Carlos’ partner, the correct information is that they were two men. Regarding the causes of his fatal career, an error or the effects of alcohol or drugs (his blood was sent to the Institute of Toxicology for analysis) are two of the hypotheses used, as well as suicide, explain sources. the Traffic Group of Madrid.
The truth is that the emergency services began to receive reports from other drivers at 6:10 in the morning that a Volkswagen Taigo, an SUV type and a new model, was driving like crazy, very fast and in the opposite direction on the La Coruña motorway. When it reached kilometer 20, it collided with Jesús Pedro, who was going to work on his own motorcycle. This agent survived “by a miracle”, as he himself commented to those around him.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Clinic and this is how he told his colleagues what happened: “I was going on the A-6, when I saw the lights in the opposite direction, so I turned right, I didn’t do it.” I don’t have time to do anything else.” I slowed down a lot, but the car hit my bike and I jumped on it. “It hit me in the leg when I jumped and I went straight under the guardrail, but without hitting the posts.” A few centimeters of difference, and I wouldn’t have counted it. In the intensive care unit, this 55-year-old municipal police officer, well known in the local police, has limited visitors, including to his wife, who still can’t believe what happened.
But behind the motorcycle was another Volkswagen, in this case an older one, a Passat. At the wheel was the national policeman Alberto SA, 44 years old. He was accompanied by a neighbor from the city where they lived, Ávila, whom he was going to take to work (this had nothing to do with the state security forces and agencies) in Madrid. Alberto was also heading to his post, within the Operational Reaction Group (GOR) of the Salamanca district police station. He carried out citizen security work on the street. He had been there for a short time, where he was a SUP union representative, after having passed through the Central Registry of Detainees.
The two friends died instantly, due to the brutal impact, after the motorcycle, of the suicide bomber also against them. The agent leaves behind his partner and a little girl of only 5 years old, for whom he felt a real devotion.
On the other hand, Juan Carlos, an engineer, also lost his life in the same place and his brother Jorge Luis, one year older and a psychologist in training, was extremely seriously injured. If he survives, his testimony will also be decisive.
