A "dangerous criminal" attacked 9 public employees of the Tahíche prison this Thursday, causing them "injuries of different consideration." That is what the Acaip union has denounced, which affirms that the officials suffered "bruises all over the body, incisive contusion wounds on arms, hands and legs, gashes on the head, blood, broken fingers and scratches," among other injuries.
The "brutal aggression" occurred at 9 p.m., when a fire was observed in the aggressor's cell through security cameras. "When the workers arrive, they find the inmate armed with a prison spike trying to stab the first one who approached and threatening to kill them all," Acaip relates.
According to reports, the inmate is "a violent prisoner who arrived from Tenerife, a 130-kilo mass of weight," who was "armed with a prison spike." "It is one of the worst nightmares that prison officials have to face," they explain. According to reports, "neither the rubber defenses that ended up broken, nor the shield broken into pieces, nor the helmet that ended up as a weapon in the hands of the aggressor when they took away the prison spike, nor the personal strength of the nine workers who were on the verge of collapse were of any use." Finally, after several minutes that they claim were "endless," they managed to reduce him, handcuff him and put him back in his cell.
Three aggressions so far this year, but "none so violent"
The nine officials, according to Acaip, were treated in the infirmary of the penitentiary center and, given the seriousness of the injuries, were referred to the hospital and some to a private clinic, "where they were treated and cared for until late at night." During the morning of this Friday, they explain that "the sick leave of four of them has been confirmed and it is expected that the others will do so in the next few hours."
The union denounces that it is the third aggression suffered by the workers of the Tahíche prison so far this year, although they specify that "none had been so violent." "They had never seen anything like it before," they emphasize, questioning that "the worst of all is that the workers had been warning their superiors since they sent this inmate from Tenerife, where he had already starred in several incidents."
According to reports, "the prison is not prepared to house this type of inmate." But "despite the reports, the management did not classify the inmate in the first degree, as this would mean his immediate transfer to a prison with a closed regime department."
From Acaip they denounce the "stubbornness of the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions and the Ministry of the Interior in not considering prison workers as authority as happens with doctors and teachers." In addition, they question the "exclusion of prison workers from the aggression plan of the General State Administration, signed by the UGT and Csif administration, where, among other measures, specialized psychological support is included for public employees who are victims of aggression and to which prison workers are not entitled."