The Provincial Court of Madrid ordered on Tuesday the search and capture of Daniel Gallardo, sentenced to four years in prison for attacking a National Police agent during protests against the sentencing of the process in Madrid. He is the first sentenced to prison for the riots in the fall of 2019 by the decision of the Supreme Court.
Section 23 of the hearing has adopted this measure after the activist – close to anti-fascist groups – has not appeared before the judicial requests made on July 25, 2023, January 30 and February 26, 2024. has been able to locate him at his home.
As police sources confirm to La Vanguardia, Gallardo's whereabouts are unknown. The fugitive location group of the National Police awaits the arrival of the request to launch the search and capture. It is unknown if Daniel Gallardo left the country after spending a year in provisional prison.
Gallardo was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Madrid to four years and six months in prison for public disorder, attacks against law enforcement officers and injuries. That sentence was reduced very slightly – to four years – by the Supreme Court, considering that he should have been sentenced for the basic type of public disorder and not the aggravated one.
During the oral hearing, the then accused denied the attack on the uniformed man. However, the court considered it proven that Gallardo “suddenly and violently hit an agent in the head from behind” with a wooden stick with “six nails piercing it.”
The Supreme Court stated that "to affirm that he was not dangerous because the part hit was the head and he was wearing a helmet of special protection (despite which the nails left marks on the helmet, although without actually piercing it), would be the same as asserting that "shooting an agent who was wearing a bulletproof vest is not dangerous because he shot himself in the chest."
