The National Police arrested a worker from Alcorcón hospital last Saturday while trying to kill an 82-year-old woman admitted to the trauma unit of the health center. JJFG, 49, tried to suffocate the patient with a pillow, but at that moment the roommate woke up and she told the auxiliaries that they could avoid the crime and facilitate their arrest. This is an employee of the Ilunion company that is in charge of the laundry and linen service of the Alcorcón hospital. According to police inquiries, he suffers from schizophrenia and is admitted to the Psychiatry Unit of the same hospital.

The prisoner already killed two people 22 years ago in the same way. It was in December 1997 when he ended the life of Valeriana de la Fuente, 82, when he slept in room 4,601 of the Clinical Hospital. The killer was arrested at that time. Two days later he killed an inmate who slept in the infirmary of the Carabanchel prison, where both were prisoners.

Three years later he was acquitted for total exemption for mental disorder and the court ordered his admission to the prison psychiatric center of Alicante for a period not exceeding 20 years. In 2007, he was released although subject to periodic monitoring from a reference and medicated center.

There is still more in his macabre curriculum. In the police records there is evidence that he already tried to kill another person in another medical center in 1993.

Union sources at the Alcorcón hospital have indicated that the medical center should review other cases of deaths that have occurred in recent months in case it could be involved. At noon today the hospital director has summoned all unions to inform them of the events.

JJFG had been working in the lingerie and laundry department of the Alcorcón Hospital Foundation for five years. He was a cold and reserved man, according to his companions, but nobody knew he was schizophrenic and killed two people in 1997.

A spokeswoman for the Alcorcón Hospital said yesterday that she could not talk about the case when she was under judicial investigation and that there is no evidence to conclude that the criminal was trying to end the lives of more patients in the health center.

Last Saturday JJ walked through the corridors in his hospital uniform and wielding a cutter in his hands, as found out by security cameras. Around 07.00, the nurses on the 2nd floor, block C, were startled to hear the screams coming from room 19 of the Traumatology Unit. When the auxiliaries approached the room they saw a male standing by the patient's bed, 82 years old. At that time, the alleged murderer was lying on the old woman's head. One of the nurses shouted: "What are you doing? What do you do?". Next, the professional came to help the woman while the suspect fled the room.

The nurses immediately notified the Security service and the Police saying they knew the aggressor, since "he worked in the hospital's lingerie service" without being able to provide more information about him.

A cut in the arm

When the National Police officers arrived at the hospital door, the assailant was already held by security guards. Specifically, he was already in the emergency room with a co-worker.

Agents discovered that JJ had a cut in his left arm and proceeded to identify him. When he was interrogated, the man said that nothing had "happened," but the police insisted and asked if he knew the patient. That's when the man confessed that he had put the pillow in the old woman's face. The officials asked him again the reason for the attack and the man said he did not know.

At that time, he was arrested after ensuring that he did not have to be in that room and that the wound on his arm had been caused by himself with a cutter that he then threw into a hospital wastebasket.

After being treated in the emergency department of the incised wound, the arrested person was evaluated by the Hospital Psychiatry Unit, as he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The woman she tried to suffocate told the National Police she was awake when JJ entered the room. He said he thought it was a nurse and that the man tried to drown her with a pillow that was requisitioned by the agents with remains of the victim's blood.

The murderer left the psychiatric center where he remained admitted in 2007, after 10 years, after being agreed by a prison surveillance judge and the Provincial Court of Madrid, who ordered his detention. He had the favorable reports of psychologists and psychiatrists and from that moment he should receive outpatient treatment and was in the custody of his relatives.

The companions of the arrested man said yesterday that they knew he had been arrested, although they warned that neither knew he was schizophrenic or had committed two murders in 1997.

They also indicated that their behavior at work had been normal and that it had never caused any incident. They added that he suffered a small physical disability and that yesterday he had not come to work on time.

The Ilunión company, for which I worked, belongs to the ONCE Foundation, pursues social integration and has a workforce of about 32,000 workers, of which more than 35% are people with disabilities.

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