The young couple strolled quietly down a street in Malaga without being aware of the brutal aggression of which they were going to be a victim.

An armed individual, for no apparent reason, pounced on them after shouting

"Machupichu, I have to kill you!"

and began hitting the boy on the head with an iron bar when he caught up with him.

An attack that would have ended his life if a citizen had not intervened who tackled and detained the aggressor until the arrival of the

Local Police

, who arrested him for a hate crime and another for injuries or attempted murder, according to the judicial authority. .

Sources close to the case informed EL MUNDO that these events occurred at around 4:00 pm last Tuesday, the

eve of Christmas Eve

, on Obispo Gaspar de Molina street in the Malaga capital.

A patrol of the aforementioned body was alerted by a citizen that there was a brawl in which "one man was trying to kill another."

"Run, it kills him,"

he warned them.

The agents quickly moved to the indicated point and there they ran into a group of people milling around a garden in which there was an individual who was immobilizing another who was

"very violent and upset

.

"

Along with them, a 30-year-old man of Ecuadorian origin who, "very frightening," tried to stop a

hemorrhage in his head

caused by a strong blow

with a cloth

.

"From this I recover! I do not forget, when I leave we settle accounts!" The person who was identified by the witnesses as the aggressor, a

51-year-old man

who was discovered in the search by the police

, shouted at the wounded

man.

homemade skewer with a blade

15 centimeters long

and four wide, a self-defense spray can and a crowfoot-style bar with which he struck the young man.

Once the situation was controlled, and with the ambulance on the way to treat the injured, the agents reconstructed what happened through the testimonies of those involved and the people who were present.

The wounded man said that he was walking with his partner when the aggressor went to him, rebuking him.

"Machupichu, I have to kill you!", He shouted, as he raised the bar and made his victim

flee

.

The victim claimed that the man chased her through several streets until he caught up with her and hit her hard on the head with the kickstand.

On the ground, another struck him.

And he tried to hit him more, but the boy put his arms up to protect himself.

A neighbor, alarmed by "the violence of the attack", intervened and managed to

reduce and retain the aggressor

, who at no time stopped showing a threatening attitude.

The agents, who located the object used in the attack, stated that the arrested man had had previous problems with the residents of the area, who declared that they observed him from their homes trying to hit the young man on the head.

They stressed that he is a

"very problematic" person

.

The partner of the wounded man acknowledged that he had felt "great fear for his life" due to the aggressiveness of the individual, who justified the possession of different weapons stating that he "used them to defend himself."

The man, who continued to make

threats

, was arrested initially accused of a hate crime, to which would be added the charge derived from the attack and which was pending to be qualified by the judicial authority, since it could be related to an injury or an attempt of homicide.

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