A video recorded in the Toledan town of Valmojado on the morning of September 9 last year, went viral due to the brutal attack on the street of four civil guards, three men and a woman, by a group of violent individuals. These subjects came to breaking two teeth and a jaw of one officer, in addition to fracturing two phalanges of the hand of another, tearing off a nail of a third and biting.according to the prosecution in its indictment.
A year later, the alleged perpetrators of the events will be tried this Wednesday before the Provincial Court of Toledo, where the Public Prosecutor will request between two and six years in prison for the accused, four of which will be in prison for this cause.
This Saturday morning, around 9:10, an employee of a hotel with a bar and restaurant in the Plaza de la Cañada alerted the Civil Guard: several people were causing trouble and disturbing other customers. Shortly after, two uniformed police officers arrived and tried to identify two individuals who were disturbing them.
At that point, according to the prosecution, one of the accused told them that they were being recorded and threatened to lose their hair, in addition to calling them bastards and racists. The guards then asked him to identify himself, but He refused and replied that they should do it.. Then a group of people surrounded the officers, who were pushed out of the establishment up the stairs.
The men in uniform called for reinforcements and two companions arrived, who also They were cornered and forced to retreat at the roundabout in the square while someone, as shown in the video, tried to act as a mediator. Then, one of the accused “punched” an officer, who managed to dodge it, but another uniformed police officer received a punch on the left side of the face.
Two guards proceeded to arrest him while their companions protected them. However, another subject removed the transmission equipment and the expandable defense from one of them, who managed to retrieve it immediately, although he suffered several blows and even a bite on the left hand by three other defendants.
In this spiral of violence against the police, one of these attackers also grabbed, hit and twisted the fingers of the civil guard, who suffered a fracture of the fourth and fifth metacarpal phalanges of the left hand. For your recovery, I needed a cast and a splintas well as 45 days of healing. He has limited hand mobility.
To a companion They tore off a nail from his right handin addition to bruises on his left hand. Another suffered bruises on his back and a fourth received the worst: two teeth and his left jaw were broken.
Four of the defendants were still in prison the day the prosecutor in this case signed the indictment, on February 16, so it is expected that they will appear in court in Toledo handcuffed and in a Civil Guard van from prison.
