Mallorca spanner attack: man needs 7–8 stitches

Palma, Mallorca: A blow with a spanner leaves a man needing seven to eight stitches to his head late on Wednesday. The attack happens on Jacint Verdaguer street. Spain’s National Police later arrest a suspect in a nearby bar.

Paramedics treat the injured man at the scene. Witnesses tell police that the suspect and a woman had been sitting on a bench opposite him and others. The injured man says his attacker came round behind them unnoticed, struck him without a word and left with the woman.

Police patrols find the suspect in a nearby bar. Officers say there is blood on his jacket, believed to be from the injured man, and two witnesses identify him there.

Speaking through an interpreter, the suspect tells police that the injured man had confronted and bothered him, and that a fight had broken out. Officers arrest him on suspicion of causing injury.

Topics: Police · Arrests · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com