The Guardia Civil is looking for a North African male between 30 and 35 years old and 1.75 meters tall who brutally beat an elderly man in Torre Pacheco (Murcia). Domingo, who is the victim, provided this information in his statement to the Civil Guard half an hour after the attack.
The police complaint, which begins as follows: “The complainant was walking through the town of Torre Pacheco at 5:50 a.m., near the cemetery and the bus station, when he saw three individuals, possibly Moroccan.” Domingo arrived at this judgement based on the attackers’ appearance and accents.
Domingo, 68, was terrified at the sight of such a predicament, but he had no idea it was the prelude to the severe and unjustifiable beating he would receive in minutes at the hands of the three young men.
“He started hitting me in the face.”
“One of them was on the phone, another wasn’t doing anything, and the third approached the complainant and, without any justified cause, began attacking him in the face,” the older gentleman informed the Civil Guard.
Domingo couldn’t say much more because everything happened so fast, and the first thing he did was go to the local health centre: “As a result of the attack, he suffered conjunctival haemorrhage, haematoma, and abrasions, as reflected in the injury report he provided at this time.”
“Dressed with a dark tank top”
The Guardia Civil repeatedly attempted to prompt Domingo’s memory. When asked to describe the assailant, Domingo describes him in his report as “a man between 30 and 35 years old, 1.75 meters tall, of average build, wearing a dark tank top.”
He is the man identified as the major aggressor among the three, and he is the focus of the Guardia Civil’s investigation. Domingo didn’t know him at all, he says in his complaint, and detectives suspect they beat the elderly man for amusement.
Calls for more Guardia Civil patrols
Torre Pacheco mayor Pedro Ángel Roca stated that he had called the Government delegate, Mariola Guevara, and requested a special joint effort with the Local Police to immediately find the perpetrators.
The Mayor also requested that the highest-ranking official in Murcia expand Guardia Civil patrols in the municipality. A government spokesman verified that eight fresh officers had arrived at the town’s Civil Guard unit.
The Mayor’s Office expects that these new police will help to boost Citizen Security in the city and not be utilised for administrative purposes.
Author: Derek Appleton
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