He got into a taxi armed with two shotguns and 157 cartridges ready to "settle scores" with the Benalmádena Local Police. The 70-year-old man shared his intentions with the driver of the vehicle: he wanted to "kill" the agents because the municipal tow truck had taken his car and, although he recognized that it was parked incorrectly in the loading and unloading area of the parking lot, from a supermarket, he considered that it had been "blatantly stolen.
Thus, with the two weapons, he went last Monday at 9:40 p.m. to the Local Police Headquarters where, thanks to the collaboration of Radio-Taxi, an operation was waiting for him to reduce him and he was finally arrested without anyone suffering. any damage.
"I'm going to kill them, I'm going to kill innocent people and I don't care," the man said according to the testimony of the taxi driver who witnessed his intentions, "here everyone dies like in wars."
Despite the driver's attempts to get the man to rectify and change his attitude, he was unable to do so. "I'm ahead of two or three," he is heard saying in the video.
"Here everyone dies like in wars," was the response of the investigator, while telling him that he was going to kill innocent people but that he should be calm because he was protected and nothing was going to happen to him.
The quick action of the Police and the collaboration of Radio Taxi has allowed the arrest of the man who had to be subdued by a group of Local Police agents and at the time of the arrest his two shotguns, a weapons license and a backpack with the 157 cartridges.
The agents, knowing the intentions of the aggressor, had arranged an operation five minutes before his arrival at the Headquarters to reduce him, thus managing to neutralize him and put an end to the dangerous situation in a rapid, effective and unprecedented intervention, according to municipal sources have reported.
The detainee is being investigated for the crimes of attacking law enforcement agents, threats and resistance and is in a hospital for observation. A search has been carried out at the home of the investigated person with the authorization of the family and the agents and they have found an arsenal of weapons, from pistols, katanas, daggers and knives.
The mayor of Benalmádena, Juan Antonio Lara, has congratulated the acting agents and the operation since thanks to the rapid intervention, not only the lives of the driver and the police officers who were there at that time were saved, but also that of all the people who were in an area that is usually very busy with neighbors and visitors.
