The death of a 34-year-old man, killed by a police officer in the Spanish city of A Coruña, has taken an unexpected turn with the testimony of his mother, Cuban Daysi Esther Casimiro Ferrer, who clarified that her son “was not a criminal”, but rather suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had probably suffered a psychotic break.
According to statements from the National Police published In the diary The voice of GaliciaHenry Carbonell Casimiro attacked an agent with an iron bar and he was forced to shoot in self-defense.
The reports agree that it is a man who was very aggressive in the street on Christmas morning. The shooting death was the outcome of a chase that began on Arteixo Avenue, near the A Grela industrial estate, where he had broken the windows of several cars with an iron bar.
The reports agree that it is a man who was very aggressive in the street on Christmas morning.
Some citizens began to chase him until a National Police patrol intervened in the industrial estate of A Grela, in A Coruña, a park created in 1968 that has hotels, cafeterias, restaurants, business centers and gas stations, among others. .
The voice of Galicia He says that, first of all, a police officer tried to arrest him with a taser electric gun, which did not work due to the large amount of clothing that the alleged aggressor was wearing. According to police sources, the agent took out his service weapon and stopped the individual when he was in a very aggressive state and “out of his mind.” According to one of the journalistic versions of the incident, the police officer fell to the ground and fired. One of the bullets ended Carbonell’s life.
Casimiro Ferrer, forensic doctor in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) in an interview with The voice of Galicia He explained that his son, who studied in London, spoke five languages and worked as a tour guide in Segovia, where he lived with his partner, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He added that the young man had not been taking the necessary medication for a month and, therefore, he must have been suffering a psychotic break when he was killed.
The young man had not been taking the necessary medication for a month and, therefore, must have been suffering a psychotic break when he was shot dead.
The Cuban coroner says that, after an argument, her son suffered a psychotic break that decompensated and he left for Galicia on November 17 without notifying his family, which led her to report his disappearance. “They did not arrest him,” explains the mother in response to reports from various media outlets that a week ago he was hospitalized due to an incident on the street, adding that if they had imprisoned him they would have known his health condition, about which she sent a report by fax to the police.
Casimiro Ferrer insists that he will seek justice for his son, who was not a criminal on the street, but rather someone sick who “the system failed.” On the other hand, the United Police Union has expressed its support for the officer involved in the homicide and has offered him the psychological help required in these cases.
The Police have opened an internal investigation to determine whether the officer had used his firearm in accordance with the procedures established in such cases.
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