The National Police have arrested three bouncers of a Salamanca nightclub for a young man whom they attacked even while he was on the ground, taking advantage of his physical superiority. The workers at the Salamanca nightclub had “numerous police records,” as reported by the National Police. The victim has required medical assistance and “numerous stitches” to heal the wounds caused by the beating. The city, with an intense university nightlife, has suffered recurring incidents involving nightclub workers.
The beating occurred in the Plaza de Monterrey, and just 100 meters from the Plaza Mayor, on Saturday, March 21. “The three brutally beat a young man at the door and around a leisure establishment in the downtown area,” the authorities reported in a statement. The account of the events describes that the young man, who had been drinking, tried to get away from the nightclub where the first beatings began, but that he was chased by the three subjects who then “gave him a brutal beating, taking advantage of their superiority and the victim’s inaction.” The victim suffered multiple “headbutts, kicks and punches” that continued even when he fell to the ground and was left especially defenseless against his attackers.
Police sources explain that the beating involved “seven stitches between the nose and skull.” The affected person reported the events and, then, the investigators’ investigations began, the result of which showed “without any doubt the identity of the three aggressors.” These were nightlife workers who already had “numerous police records.”
The arrests did not occur until a week after the events. First, two of them were arrested and in the case of the third, despite being identified, it took a little longer because an arrest warrant was issued for him. “We know them from the night, 99.9% of nightclub bouncers have a history of injuries,” summarize the same police voices regarding the third party responsible for the beating. The three detainees have already been brought to justice, without being informed of the resolution taken by the judge.
This event occurs several months after a man was stabbed to death by another nightclub bouncer around the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, very close to the establishment where this new attack took place. It happened last summer, at dawn: the victim was 42 years old and was fatally wounded by a knife in the chest. The person responsible for the crime was arrested and the murder weapon was located before the man was taken to provisional prison by the judicial authority.
Police sources regret the events that have happened in the city recently related to nightlife. They remember other recent cases of stabbings among groups of young people, or that of a 19-year-old boy “who slashed another’s face” by breaking a glass in his face. The victim, they explain, ended up with a 30-point suture on the wound, which almost affected his eye.
