THE Mossos of the Squara They neutralized with a gunshot a 52-year-old man who had presented himself at the police station on Monday evening. Reus Police Station (Tarragona), demanding “that they kill him”, and that he also opened fire on the agents with a air gun. As reported by the Corps, the individual is stable after being transferred to the hospital. The event occurred around 10:30 p.m., he told officers he had the intention to self-harm.
Faced with this situation and his “incoherent speech”, the police alerted an ambulance, which took him to the hospital. psychiatric center. Despite this, at around one o’clock in the morning he returned to the same police station. The officers attended to him and talked to him to try to calm him down. Once he had calmed down, he left, but after three hours, as two police officers were leaving the premises in Reus, They found him with a shotgun in his hand. He had also changed his clothes.
The two officers then alerted their colleagues via radio and tried to take cover while the individual began shooting at them. No one was injured, the Corps claims, since they were wearing bulletproof vests. After managing to hide behind a wall, they ordered him to drop the weapon “several times.” By not obeying, One of the police officers shot him with his service weapon.
“We acted with coherence and proportionality to repel the aggression,” said the Catalan police. During the search, the individual was also found ax and they checked that he was wearing a air gunAfter neutralizing him, they rescued him and an ambulance took him to the hospital, where he is recovering.
THE Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) has taken charge of the case. The individual is accused of having attacked law enforcement officers. Jihadist motivation is excluded.
