The image has spread like wildfire on social networks and through instant messaging in recent days and has gone viral at high speed. However, the message that accompanies the photograph is a hoax. This has been confirmed by both Metrotenerife and the Cabildo de Tenerife. “There has not been a third stabbing while robbing users of the Tenerife tram“. The National Police He has also denied that there have been attacks with a knife on users of the light rail on the island to rob them.
The truth is that the blood that appears at the entrance of one of the wagons is real, it is not a montage, however it is due to the fact that a person entered with a cut on one arm and left that trail of blood. As confirmed by the National Police to The day, it would be a person who “has his mental faculties somewhat diminished and harmed himself by hitting a wall in front of the bus stop where he got on.” In fact, some passengers, seeing him bleeding, were interested in his condition and tried to help him, but “the man was in a state of certain aggression and did not want to receive any kind of help.”
From Metrotenerife they add that The event occurred on November 22 at 4:12 p.m.: “A person entered the tram with an arm injury and, after reaching his stop, got off the vehicle by his own means.”
The company that manages the tram adds that “during the time this person was inside the tram, there was no incident, except for the shock of the rest of the passengers”, since the man was bleeding profusely. Similarly, Metrotenerife denied that there was a stabbing on the Tenerife tram while passengers were being robbed.
A passenger self-harmed
The public company indicates that, once the injured man left the vehicle, he withdrew to clean it, since there were blood stains on the floor. Metrotenerife clarifies that the bloodstains in the image that have been circulating on social networks and instant messaging correspond to the aforementioned fact of the aforementioned person who entered with a wound on one arm while, again, denying that this stain It has to do with a stabbing.
In fact, Metrotenerife abounds that “the security cameras were reviewed and it can be seen that the cause of the passenger’s injury was a self-harm that occurred when hitting a wall located in front of the stop of origin”, they conclude.
