Arrested for walking with an ax and a bloody face through the streets of Malaga

For driving with a ax and with a bloody face Through the streets of Malaga capital, agents of the National Police arrested this Friday a man in his 60s who scared several people last night in the Cruz de Humilladero district.

As reported to ABC by the Emergency Service 112 of the Andalusian Government, at 10:30 p.m. this Friday they received several calls from witnesses alerting them that, on Amarguillo Street in the Cruz de Humilladero district of the capital of Malaga, along To a square, there was a man walking with an ax and with his face full of blood, which was generating a great alarm in the area.

112, who is not aware that the incident caused any injuries or that no person had to be transferred to a hospital center, then activated members of the Local Police and the National Police, who traveled to the scene.

Sources from the National Police, which has taken charge of the investigation, have confirmed to ABC that they detained the man, born in 1964, for a crime of public disorder.

Entrenched with an ax

This event has not been the only one related to an ax these weeks in Malaga. And a man was arrested in Benalmádena by the National Police after an incident in which He barricaded himself with an ax in a house in Benalmádena and allegedly threatened the officers who intervened. According to La Opinión, the police were forced to enter the building by force and subdue it with the electric shock of a taser gun, since he did not listen to reason and brandished the weapon until the last moment, police sources have stated.

The events occurred weeks ago in an urbanization in the Carvajal area. Around 9:00 a.m. in the morning, the National Police went to a residential complex after a call from several citizens who warned that a man andHe was screaming and throwing household belongings into the street.some of considerable weight and size, from the balcony of a third floor, which caused damage to at least one vehicle and endangered the safety of passers-by.

After verifying that furniture and other objects had fallen onto the street, the agents they cut the road to the passage of pedestrians and vehicles to avoid risks and tried unsuccessfully to get the man to stop his behavior. The sources add that members of the Citizen Assistance Group (radio patrols) and the Prevention and Reaction Unit (UPR) went up to the house to try to reason with the man, who had left hostile notes against the police on the door and refused. to open them. Through a window of the house that overlooked a common area, they saw the man wielding the ax and making threatening gestures towards them.