Report The missing hero of Cambrils
"They came shouting
Allahu Akbar
[God is the greatest], running towards me. They had something in their hands, but I don't know if it was a knife, I can't remember it. And when I had them on top, they didn't give me more time to open fire against them and put them down. All three. "
This is how a Mosso d'Esquadra reported this morning how they fired at the
jihadists
who, on the night of August 17, 2017, hours after the fatal outrage on Las Ramblas, broke into the seafront of
Cambrils
(Tarragona) on the night of August 17. August to attack passers-by with large knives.
A woman died.
The agent has related what happened with a trembling voice.
He has explained that since then he has psychological problems, that he suffers "severe post-traumatic stress" and that he has been on sick leave.
The
mosso
has testified this Monday as a witness in the trial against two alleged members of the cell who were preparing attacks with explosives, as well as against an alleged collaborator.
The plans were frustrated when the explosives exploded on August 16, 2017, which led to the hitting of Las Ramblas and the attack with knives in Cambrils the following day.
"There it all ends. I am in a state of
shock
. I don't really understand what has happened, it has been very fast. I hear people screaming, I see a bloody person asking for help for his wife who was on the ground. I saw several people lying on the ground and at that moment I realized that my partner was standing bleeding, her face bloody and limping. I stayed there without knowing where, or how, or when, until colleagues arrived and when I saw me in that They took me out of there and took me to the police station. "
Since then he has suffered from "depression" and has spent seasons in which he tried to "isolate himself from everything" and others of "constant hyperalertness".
I am afraid, insecure, I am very afraid of being recognized.
And the worst of all is a very high feeling of guilt and how it is affecting my family, "he explained.
To questions from the lawyer representing him, he added that he has not received compensation from the Ministry of the Interior or the Generalitat and that his recognition as a victim of terrorism is in process.
He has also applied to Social Security to grant him total disability.
Other
mossos
who were present at the events in Cambrils, where five terrorists were killed,
have also declared
.
The attack began when the car in which the terrorists were traveling was launched against a patrol that was guarding the entrance to the yacht club, full that night because a concert was being held.
A woman died and an officer was seriously injured.
One of the witnesses has been the agent run over.
"I saw that it had blood, a woman on the ground who was not moving, the vehicle overturned and some individuals on the ground with belts with aluminum cans that were getting up."
"I saw that it was an attack and I began to shoot, I ran out of ammunition, one stood in front of me moving his arms, I told him not to approach and he turned around and went in the opposite direction," he said.
During one of the interrogations, the accused Driss Oukabir - brother of one of the terrorists killed in Cambrils - has risen from the bench inside the security tank with the intention of leaving, but the president of the Chamber, Alfonso Guevara, has him ordered him to sit down.
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