The gunman who shot his bosses in a security company in Tarragona asks for euthanasia

The security guard who last December injured four people in a firearm assault on the company in Tarragona where he worked has started the process to request euthanasia.

The man suffers an irreversible spinal cord injury, after being hit by a bullet from the Mossos d'Esquadra during his arrest.

According to information advanced by

, the injury keeps him in a situation of dependency and causes him intense pain, for which he would have asked the doctors who treat him to activate the protocols for euthanasia.

Marin Eugen Sabau is 46 years old and remains in the Terrassa Penitentiary Hospital.

After his arrest, the Investigating Court 5 of Tarragona ordered provisional detention and the same court now has on the table the request for voluntary death made by the gunman.

Your treating doctor has agreed to start the procedure.

“I am going to be in the news with Securitas”, Eugen had announced in an email that he sent to the security company where he worked.

“I have no choice, I will do justice with my hands.

Lessons learned in blood are not soon forgotten.

Securitas will remember me for a few years,” he noted.

The man, single and member of a shooting club in Tarragona, on the morning of December 14 fulfilled his threats.

He repeated that he lived through “hell” in the company, that the bosses made “his life impossible”, that he was a victim of labor exploitation and discrimination due to racism.

“I am going to vaccinate the heads of Securitas with three doses of 9mm Glock-Pfizer.

I don't want to kill them, I'll leave them screwed (...) I'm not crazy, I planned it perfectly, "he wrote.

After the shooting, he barricaded himself in a semi-abandoned farm on the outskirts of Riudoms.

He was wearing a bulletproof vest, a homemade shield and, at least, a long gun with a telescopic sight.

Police negotiators tried to get him to surrender.

Unsuccessfully.

Specialists from the Mossos Special Intervention Groups (GEI) opened fire and shot him down.

The general secretary of the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat, Meritxell Masó, explained last week that 137 Catalans have requested the right to euthanasia since the deployment of the law in Spain a year ago.

According to the registry, 78 requests have been approved and 60 have already been made.

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