Suspect in the slitting of a man’s throat in Cartagena has been arrested

According to police sources, the National Police have taken into custody the individual who cut the throat of a man in his sixties in Cartagena at the end of October. […]

November 6, 2025 2 Mins Read

According to police sources, the National Police have taken into custody the individual who cut the throat of a man in his sixties in Cartagena at the end of October. The suspect is a 55-year-old Spanish citizen with a long history of crime. The Judicial Police team arrested the man after they had been following him for just over a week and quickly identified him.

Juan, a local resident, had emergency surgery at the Santa Lucía Hospital in Cartagena just hours after the attack and lived through it. He is still alive, but for now he can’t talk about what happened in his own words.

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It’s important to remember that the surgery was exceedingly risky because Juan’s trachea had to be rebuilt. He was 65 years old and went to the Intensive Care Unit after the procedure. But the Regional Ministry of Health says that as of Sunday, he is currently in a regular ward. He is getting well quickly.

Witnesses told the police that Juan was in a pub on the last Saturday of October, the day of the attack, and then he went to an ATM to get cash. At that point, his attacker hit him, perhaps to steal the cash he had just taken out of the bank.

The attack was so bad that the attacker cut the old man’s throat. He then ran away, leaving the person he hurt seriously hurt and bleeding. People who saw it phoned the police.

The National Police headquarters called the 112 Emergency Coordination Centre to ask for immediate medical help for a man with a significant neck injury. Witnesses called the police’s emergency number, 091, to report the incident, but there were no patrol cars available at the time because they were also dealing with a death in Cartagena (a man who fell down the stairs of his home and died) and the arrival of migrants at the Temporary Immigrant Detention Centre (CATE).

On the first Tuesday of November, the person was eventually taken into custody. He was sent to jail after being caught. The suspect will spend a maximum of 72 hours in police detention and will then be taken before the duty judge in Cartagena as the suspected perpetrator of attempted homicide (or murder, to be established later in the proceedings).