• Events The toilet brutally beaten in the Metro by a young man who asked him to put on the mask loses sight of the eye

The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced to four years in prison and his expulsion from Spain for 10 years the 21-year-old Colombian who in 2021 left one-eyed a nurse in the Madrid Metro whom he assaulted after repeatedly telling him to put on the mask, when the regulations of its mandatory use in public transport due to the pandemic were in force. The young man is convicted of a crime of intentional injury in ideal competition with a crime of injury of loss of main limb by serious recklessness.

The Prosecutor's Office requested for Juan Camilo eight and a half years in prison for a crime of injury. In addition to the prison sentence, the Chamber agrees to his expulsion from Spain, without being able to return in 10 years, and to compensate the victim with 72,000 euros compared to the 80,000 requested by the Public Ministry.

The health worker, then a nurse at the 12 de Octubre Hospital, lost the vision in one eye due to the severity of the injury. The events were recorded by the cameras of the underground, which showed that the aggressor was the only person who did not wear a mask, according to Europa Press.

At the trial, the boy stated that he hit him with his arm without intending to hurt him when he felt panic when he punched the victim before, denying hitting him with a blunt object.

The events occurred around 22:30 p.m. on July 1,3, inside a Metro Line 2021 car, on the route between Cuatro Caminos and Alto del Arenal stations.

When the convoy was at the height of this last station, in Puente de Vallecas, one February that was traveling in it, identified as G. M. C., required a young man of Colombian nationality of 20 years to put on the mask.

"Asshole, I hope you die"

According to the account of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the nurse repeatedly demanded that the passenger "correctly" put on the mask, since he wore it at chin height without covering his nose and mouth. Although other passengers in the convoy joined this call, the defendant "repeatedly" refused.

At one point, the nurse himself was the one who placed the mask on the man, so an argument began between the two in which they kicked and punched each other until they were separated by other users, without harmful consequences for any of them.

When once the car stopped at the Alto del Arenal metro stop, and before leaving inside, the accused, "with the intention of undermining the physical integrity" of the nurse, punched him in the eye with the edge of the mobile phone he was carrying, while shouting "asshole, I hope you die." He then fled the scene.

As a result of this blow, according to the Prosecutor's Office, the nurse has suffered the "functional, complete and irreversible loss" of the right eye, in addition to other injuries. "The ocular sequelae that it presents "suppose a moral damage by loss of quality of life in a light degree," he says.

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