neighbor Barcelona 37 years it was… very sad –and apparently under the influence of certain drugs– resulted in death last thursday night Hospital Clinic. According to three eyewitnesses consulted by El Periódico de Catalunya, several citizens, realizing his situation, asked for an ambulance to 112, which did not arrive until the man had cardiac and respiratory arrest. After half an hour First call to Emergencies. Police sources confirmed the delay and explained that the man who had hit his head in a parked car had disappeared while being held by agents to avoid injury in the presence of a citizen who identified himself as a doctor. Witnesses confirmed the police version. sources Medical Emergency System (SEM) They explain that the event entered at 9:50 PM from 112 and was initially classified as ‘minor’. Almost half an hour later, they stress, this was considered “serious” and the ambulance arrived “within three minutes,” according to this latest assessment.
chronology
At about nine o’clock at night, a visibly upset man, shouting and holding a chair, crossed the Avinguda de Parallel, explains a bar worker. vigo, whose terrace he sat next to. He looked like a tourist as he spoke English but he lives in Barcelona. “She sat with her ass on the sidewalk with her back against the bumper of a car parked on the side of the Parallel and hugged her knees with her arms,” adds another waiter from the bar. BorrellLocated next to the Galician business.
Added to the testimony of the two waiters is the testimony of a married couple, customers of the second bar, who occasionally saw what had happened and confirmed that the man was out of his mind. “Customers called an ambulance,” they explain. And a couple approached the neighbor to try to calm him down. However, his situation ended by shaking off the woman who had fallen to the ground, possibly due to drug use. During this time, a patrol Mossos d’Esquadra -The Ciutat Vella police station is not far away- crossed the area and some customers approached a vehicle that was just arriving at a crime scene. prisoner transferask for help.
The agents, who got out of the vehicle to serve the customers, saw the man’s condition and asked for support. A few minutes later, several policemen went to Vigo’s terrace. The man was still sitting on the floor, describing in English as taking “drugs,” according to police sources. Officially, they say, “A perimeter was opened – leaving him at the center – and an ambulance was called again.” A few minutes passed as Mossos waited for a medical vehicle to surround the man. started hitting tourism.
According to the police version, which the witnesses interviewed by this newspaper did not deny, the agents intervened at that moment to avoid harm. They laid him on the floor, put a towel under his head – they asked for it at the Vigo bar – and held him while he waited for the ambulance that still didn’t come. Police sources stated that there was a citizen who introduced himself as a doctor while he was still subject, saying, “He screamed and acted with spasms at times.” And so more minutes passed.
cardiorespiratory arrest
According to witnesses, after “more than half an hour”, the man detained by the police fell into cardio-respiratory arrest. The Doctor participated in rescue maneuvers to resurrect him. While this maintenance was being done, the first ambulance arrived. And right away, three other SEM tools.
SEM sources announced that the man was transferred to Hospital Clinic de Barcelona in critical condition and died soon after. The same sources explain that they described the incident as ‘minor’ in the first phone call they received at around 20:50 in the evening. And when a warning from the Catalan police between 9:15 p.m. and 9:20 p.m. causes the assessment to become ‘serious’. After this change, it took three minutes for the ambulance to assist the man.
“The desire to cry”
“Knowing that this man died after waiting so long for the ambulance makes me cry,” the bartender at the Borrell bar explains. “What was needed was an ambulance, not the police,” the other waiter complained. Marriage, for its part, wonders “whether it’s okay to forcefully hold a person so upset, as the police do.”
Officially, Mossos remembers this as a welfare mission and opened an investigation and collected statements from several people. Mossos currently has no record of what happened. The autopsy performed on the body should now clarify what the cause of death was and whether earlier assistance from an ambulance would change things.