He (Madrid, 48 years old) crashed his van on Sunday night against a palm tree on a roundabout that is located between the municipalities of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Dos Hermanas and Seville, as confirmed to this newspaper by sources close to the Alcalá City Council. The right-hander emerged from the incident unharmed.
Although the first information told this newspaper that he tested positive for alcohol, they later specified that the right-hander refused to submit to that test when the agents went to his home. The same municipal sources indicate that the Local Police have filed a complaint for disobedience against the right-hander for refusing to carry out the control, mandatory in cases of traffic accidents.
The incident took place shortly before 8:30 pm on Sunday in the access roundabout to the Real Club de Golf de Montequinto urbanization, the Dos Hermanas neighborhood where Rivera resides, who last September after leaving the Sevillian plaza of Écija on his shoulders.
The first indications are that the bullfighter, son, grandson, great-grandson and brother of bullfighters, lost control of the vehicle and climbed onto the elevated part of the roundabout, knocking down a palm tree. The bullfighter left the scene of the accident on foot, according to several witnesses, and went to his home, where agents from the Alcalá de Guadaíra Local Police appeared, indicate interlocutors consulted by this newspaper.
After being required to undergo a breathalyzer test, he refused and claimed that he was not the one driving the vehicle. This morning, however, the right-hander went to the Alcalá de Guadaíra Local Police Headquarters to acknowledge that he was indeed in control of the wheel.
A few hours after learning of the event,, stating that “everything is fine”: “The police came, yes, because it was at the entrance to my neighborhood and it was a few meters from my house.” And he continued: “With the blow I was a little dazed and I went to sit down for a bit. But that’s it! Not positive or anything.” It is not the only media outlet in which he has spoken. He has also spoken on the Telecinco program Just the right time: “There is no control, therefore, there is no positive. I got into a roundabout and that’s it.” His lawyer, Joaquín Moeckel, also intervened by telephone in this afternoon’s program, who said that the crash occurred because Rivera got lost when looking for the entrance control to his development. “He does not remember if the agents who went to his house offered him a breathalyzer test because he was dazed,” the lawyer added.
It was the Alcalá de Guadaíra firefighters who intervened by freeing the vehicle that had been trapped in the roundabout after colliding with the palm trees. “There is no need to regret personal injuries,” of the firefighters; a publication accompanied by several photographs of the damaged car.
In the early morning of June 30, the son of Paquirri de Atocha, in Madrid. According to the police report, the bullfighter was “in a clear state of intoxication” and “ignored” when two plainclothes policemen approached him. Rivera Ordóñez was handcuffed by the officers at the premises and spent the night in a cell at the capital’s Centro police station. At seven in the morning he was released with charges, accused of a crime of resisting authority and disobedience. “I feel the need to clarify that at no time have I participated in or participated in any act of aggression towards law enforcement agents,” published on his X account on June 30. “I also want to record the respect I feel for the Security Forces and Corps, whose work I value and recognize,” . The right-hander later filed a complaint for illegal detention.
