By Cathy Elelman • Published: 10 Jan 2020 • 10:57
A SPAT over parking in an Ikea car-park in Madrid turned into a knife attack on an off-duty policeman.
An officer with the National Police’s GEO Special Operations Group was out shopping with his girlfriend in the Alcorcon district of the capital when he got into an argument with a 57-year old man over who had the most claim on a parking space.
The 57-year old suddenly pulled out a knife, managing to slash the cop twice on the neck.
That was when the attack victim revealed he was a policemen and pulled out his regulation weapon to subdue the man, assisted by some other off-duty colleagues.
The aggressor was arrested on charges of attempted homicide, threats and assaulting a police officer.
National Police union JUPOL expressed its “full support for the GEO colleague who suffered an unjustified aggression” on its Twitter feed, along with photos of the injuries to the officer’s neck.
“It is regrettable what happened”, the union added.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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