One killed and another badly wounded after being beaten by a gang of Polish immigrants in Alcalá
El Mundo
May 11, 2000
A gang of immigrants, presumably Polish immigrants, beat to death yesterday a man and wounded another during a vendetta after they had been thrown out of a bar a few hours earlier, in Alcalá de Henares.
The identity of the aggressors is still unknown, but the police has determined the area of Alcalá de Henares where they live. The events took place around the 22.30 hours of Tuesday in a bar full of people watching the football match between Bayern Munic and Real Madrid on TV.
Four foreign youths entered the bar, and the owner seemed to identify them as the same people who had stolen several bottles of alcoholic beverages from the magazine on another occasion.
"We were watching the match and the youths, who had been here before and had stolen some bottles, came in. I told my sister to lock the magazine and, as she was going there, she found one of them already inside it. They struggled and my sister cried that they were stealing. The Polish guy pushed her and ran away, but the customers stopped him. There was some struggle and we threw him out together with the other foreign youths", said the owner.
According to police sources, there was more than just a struggle in the bar. Some witnesses told that the customers aggreded them and one of the Poles was even bleeding as he was thrown out of the premises.
Instead of going away, they waited outside the bar until the match was over. Another four Polish youths joined them in the meantime.
"After the match, my two sons, the girlfriend of one of them and Francisco were the last in leaving. The Poles must have been hidden and when they turned the road a group of seven or eight youths fell over them", said the father of one of the assaulted youths.
"They attacked them from the back. They must have identified my son Rafa from his t-shirt, because they went for him. My other son, Ricardo, was attacked later when he tried to help his brother. My son Ricardo can't explain how it was, it all happened in a matter of seconds. He took his girlfriend away, safe from the Poles, and when he came to help Francisco he had already been killed by the beating."
«Les atacaron por detrás, fue un asalto por la espalda. A mi hijo Rafa le reconocieron por la camiseta, porque en principio a mi otro hijo, Ricardo, no le atacaron, le pegaron después, cuando quiso ayudar a su hermano. Mi hijo Ricardo no se explica cómo pudo suceder esto, fue cuestión de segundos; él puso a salvo a su novia y cuando quiso ayudar a Francisco ya le habían matado a golpes. Ricardo volvió para ayudar a su hermano y se fueron cuatro agresores, pero dos de ellos continuaban pegando a Rafa. El les golpeó y volvieron los anteriores a pegarle también. Después huyeron todos», añadió.
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