A man who stabbed another after pepper-spraying him in a squat The lagoon faces a possible penalty 15 years in jailwhich is what the Prosecutor’s Office will request in the trial that will be held next Thursday in the Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
In the qualification brief of the Public Ministry it is stated that the defendant had an argument with other people in the abandoned construction of La Laguna in which they all lived as squatters, and ended up beating one of them.
The National Police was alerted and went to the place to separate those involved and put an end to the brawl, without anyone being arrested or denounced.
Hours later, the defendant and several unidentified people returned to the house, although the latter hid in the vicinity while the defendant called out from the street to the man with whom he had fought and to his friends to come down, insulting them.
When they reached the street, the defendant sprayed them with pepper spray, which causes inflammation of all the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, mouth and lungs, and plunged a knife into the man’s abdomen with the gun. who had previously quarreled, and then ran away.
The Prosecutor’s Office states in its brief that the injuries suffered by the victim would have caused her death if she had not been promptly assisted.
He underwent surgery and was hospitalized for seven days.
In addition to the prison sentence, the Prosecutor’s Office requests a restraining order for the defendant for 10 years and compensation of 5,850 euros to the victim for the 45 days it took him to heal from his injuries and for the scar-shaped scars he left. The agression.
