Around 2 p.m. yesterday, Wednesday November 19th, a minor stabbed another minor on Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas in Torrevieja, close to the KFC. According to city officials, the injured youngster, who was born in the Dominican Republic, had surgery to remove the knife from his arm and is doing well with no problems.
The same sources say that the Local Police have apprehended the person they think is responsible and given them to the Guardia Civil for safekeeping and the start of the investigation.
The Judicial Police Team of the Guardia Civil of Torrevieja is looking into this attack. Both of the people involved are minors who go to IES Las Lagunas, which is only a few metres away from where it happened. However, the same sources say that there is no evidence that it is a case of school bullying.
The person who was arrested will be taken to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office today.
Fights
A couple of years ago, the Guardia Civil stepped up their presence around several of the town’s centres, with aid from the Local Police, who were in charge of running the educational centres.
The Guardia Civil of Torrevieja also met with the heads of the city’s schools to come up with a plan for what to do when there are more violent incidents and fights between students, which were sometimes planned as “meetups” near the schools and involved the students’ families.
A big fight outside of Las Lagunas Secondary School in November 2023, which featured adult relatives of the pupils, set off alarms in the school community, including teachers and parents. The Guardia Civil had to step in to stop the physical attacks.
Sources at the schools said that groups of kids were setting up fights to settle their issues. The fights were between Colombian and Romanian students, as well as young individuals who were born in Torrevieja.
The battle that broke out outside Las Lagunas school started when family members of a kid who had been attacked waited for the person who had attacked them to leave. Principals told parents to call the police and not take the law into their own hands, but some parents thought “an eye for an eye.”
All of this was also connected to the fact that the battles could lead to the formation of gangs, which the city had to deal with when Latin gangs were active more than twenty years ago.
Author: Derek Appleton
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