A man from the United Kingdom has been hospitalized in Spain after an incident where he was stabbed with a screwdriver by a passerby who requested a cigarette, to which the victim refused. The victim, a Scottish individual, sustained a punctured lung during the attack at Plaza de Ayuntamiento in Valencia’s city center around 4 am on a Saturday. Subsequently, a 45-year-old man, known to have a criminal background, was apprehended at the scene in connection to the crime.
Law enforcement responded to the incident following the screams of a woman, identified as a citizen of Uruguay, who was with the victim when the assault occurred. According to her account to the police, the attacker approached the man to ask for a cigarette, and upon refusal, proceeded to stab him with a screwdriver.
The suspect, described as mentally unstable by the newspaper Las Provincias, was taken into custody, while the victim was admitted to Doctor Peset University Hospital in Valencia. Updates on the victim’s medical condition are pending.
In a separate incident, a man in his 20s was viciously stabbed in the neck at Palma Airport in Mallorca without any apparent reason. The victim was waiting for a friend when an assailant, after an ambiguous interaction regarding the victim’s phone, suddenly attacked him with a knife.
Reports indicate that the attacker was swiftly arrested inside the airport, and the victim received immediate medical attention from SAMU 061 paramedics before being transferred to a hospital for further treatment. A source close to the case mentioned that the assailant claimed to have no recollection of the event, attributing his actions to a misunderstanding stemming from a prior theft incident at the airport.
The suspect was noted to be among the homeless individuals at Palma Airport, while the victim, an Argentine resident on the island, had no prior acquaintance with his attacker.
