The commissioner of the Mossos d’Esquadra and responsible for the Metropolitan Police Region Sud, Eduard Sallent, explained this Thursday night before the derby and has described as “fortuitous or accidental”, has been carried out by a driver who has given negative in drugs and alcohol. The incident, which occurred approximately at number 100 of Llobregat Avenue, at 9:02 p.m.
“A person who was driving a vehicle on an open road has been surrounded by fans who were heading to the stadium and, for some reason that we are not still clear, he has accelerated to leave the site,” he said. The police command added that the vehicle “is not that it was at an excessive speed”, but that the car “has been stopped, has tried to leave and, in the output maneuver, has hit the people in front.” “We must determine why this maneuver has done,” said Sallent, who has been questioned about whether the fact that the road has occurred was open has been a security error. A total of 14 people have been mildly injured.
“What surely is not a security error is what the driver has done. We are clear that when there are agglomerations of people we can find assumptions of this type,” he replied. “It is not the first or the last case. They are situations that occur on other occasions and what is not given is for the driver to tighten the accelerator,” he added. And, in the “escape”, the accident has caused. This person has been arrested and has given negative both in alcohol and drugs, and the case is in the hands of the Cornellà de Llobregat research unit.
Sallent has shown words of “support to families already injured” that although they have been, he pointed out, “mild” they have taken “a good scare.”
The RCD Espanyol communicated yesterday in its social networks that shows “all its support to those affected by the outrage” that occurred this Thursday around the RCD Stadium, before the start of the derby against FC Barcelona. Likewise, the entity directed the following message to the affected fans: “We wish you a quick recovery and we hope to see soon, at the stadium,” reports Javier Martín Mombiela.
