There are already six detainees for this pitched battle, among which are two minors
The National Police has arrested three more people in recent hours as allegedly involved in the attacks on the 12 police officers injured in the brawl last Monday night in the square of the social premises of the Mediterranean Urbanization, in Cartagena. With them, those involved are already six.
The images of a recorded video in which what happened after 10:30 p.m. on the esplanade is recorded have made it possible to identify more participants in the pitched battle and arrest them.
Of the half dozen people who have passed through the police station in the last 36 hours, two are minors, one of them a woman, and they have been released in the care of a relative or guardian. Among the other four there is also a woman. The latter will go to court as alleged perpetrators of crimes of attack on authority and riotous brawl.
Among the first three individuals arrested by the National Police, the oldest and alleged instigator of the attacks is 31 years old and has more than thirty previous arrests for mistreatment in the family, threats and robbery with violence. He is therefore an old acquaintance for the Citizen Security Unit of the Police Station.
Another is 19 years old and has also been interrogated a few times for different events when he had not yet turned 18. The two spent the night in police stations waiting to be brought to justice today for a riotous brawl and attack against the authority . The third detainee is a minor who was released at dawn and picked up by a relative.
The police investigations focus on tracing the connections of the participants with organized gangs of young people from the neighborhoods of the area, including San Antón, who flaunt their clan spirit on social networks.
Stones, hits with motorcycle helmets and punches
The pitched battle took place in one of the most central squares of the neighborhood, in front of the headquarters of the Neighborhood Association. In recent months it has been taken over daily by groups of young people who drink, smoke and intimidate those who pass by. Sources from the National Police indicated that what happened the day before yesterday led the headquarters to take drastic measures and establish a special surveillance device to nip this situation in the bud.
It all started at 10:30 p.m., when noise complaints were received in the Security Park. Eight agents moved to the esplanade of Rubí street and demanded that the people gather to lower the music. In addition to refusing to carry out these orders, those who were there resisted being identified and displayed a cocky and aggressive attitude, threatening the officials with death. In addition, little by little more young people appeared in an intimidating attitude. Stones, hits with motorcycle helmets, and punches and bites dominated the fight.
Finding themselves in clear inferiority, the agents requested reinforcements from the base and, in view of the fact that the thing could degenerate into a public order incident, the Local Police commanders informed the Police Station. The powers in matters of citizen security correspond to the National Police. This made it possible to bring together just over twenty agents, who again tried to identify those who refused to turn off the music.
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