The Christmas lights lighting did not go as it should for everyone. In Puerta del Sol, after the Christmas opening ceremony was over, a group of young people got into a violent fight with machetes, resulting in the arrest of six people, including three minors.
Since Thursday, the Madrid Municipal Police have been seen strengthening their presence in the city center with a special device for the celebrations. He had to intervene starting from 22:00. When a fight breaks out at night.
In addition to arresting those involved, agents A 20-year-old young man was seriously injured in his left arm with a knifeSamur-Civil Protection is the person who had to be tourniqueted before being transported by medical workers to the San Carlos Clinical Hospital with a mild prognosis, Emergencies Madrid reported.
Open investigation
The investigation into the incident is still ongoing, and although the reasons for the brawl are currently unknown, one of the hypotheses that agents are considering is that it could have been a conflict between members of youth gangs, police sources told EFE.
Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida was in charge of turning on the capital’s Christmas lights on Thursday night in front of about 12,000 people who, he said in his speech, filled both the Puerta del Sol and the streets. BT.
When the participants dispersed, a confrontation took place between two groups of just over a dozen teenagers on each side, resulting in the arrest of six people, three of whom were minors.
According to the same sources, both groups accuse each other of provoking each other and say this could spark a fight.