The lawyer Juan Fernández Baños, Vox candidate for the Senate in the April 2019 elections, died this Monday at the age of 38, the victim of a drowning on the Asturian beach of La Espasa.

According to the newspaper La Nueva España, neither the rescuers nor the medical teams displaced to the scene were able to save his life, although the resuscitation tasks lasted for more than an hour.

The lawyer from Gijón, who had lived in Madrid for a few years, was enjoying a bath in the Bay of Biscay when the current swept him away, according to sources from the Caravia City Council cited by El Comercio.

At that time, around 7:30 p.m., the lifeguards' schedule had already expired, but they were still nearby and, informed of what had happened, they ran back to the beach and tried to revive the victim until the medical teams arrived.

The emergency services even requested the 112 Asturias helicopter before verifying the impossibility of reviving him and after confirming his death.

Finally, the authorities proceeded to remove the body for its transfer to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Oviedo.

He will undergo an autopsy to determine if he suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest before drowning or not.

According to La Nueva España, a 20-year-old man who was bathing in the El Visu area of ​​the aforementioned beach with his friends saw a man in the water who was making movements, "but what type was not well appreciated."

When they left the sea they realized that his body was floating and they returned with a surfboard to get him out.

Juan Fernández Baños, with a notable career as a lawyer specializing in Civil and Commercial Procedural Law, worked for the DJV Abogados office in Madrid.

He was a specialist in arbitration and unfair competition matters.

In addition, according to La Nueva España, he was "a great bullfighting fan", a regular in Madrid's Las Ventas bullring and at the Begoña bullfighting fair, in his native Gijón, where he was well known and where he frequently returned to visit his mother.

Precisely with her he enjoyed the beach this Monday until her fatal outcome was confirmed.

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