ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: A man entrenched himself for over three hours and threatens to blow his house up 

A man entrenched himself for over three hours and threatens to blow his house up
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A. Michael on 02 February, 2010 12:48:00

The operation started when the now arrested man’s stepson, a 13-year-old boy,
informed the police that his mother was being attacked.

Last Saturday, a man worried the security forces after entrenching himself for
over three hours time in a property of Torrevieja, where at about 4 p.m., he had
apparently hit his partner and her son, a minor.
Six Guardia Civil’s patrols and several ambulances went to the number 44 of
calle Los Gases to try to take out from a fifth floor a man who was armed with
several knives and threatened to blow his house up.
As the Torrevieja’s firemen explained, the man held “solvent, ammonia and
other flammable products” he assured he had spread the whole house with.
Over twelve agents of the Guardia Civil carried out the negotiations, to which
at several moments the man seemed to surrender and go out, but he ended up by
changing his mind and started threatening again. In the end, some Guardia Civil
agents had to break in to catch the man at about 7 p.m., before the amazed faces
of dozens of neighbours.
This Spanish man, aged around 40, could face now other crimes apart from the
charges of abuse and menaces to the authorities.