Ángel Bejarano, a resident of Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville), has had to resort to social networks to draw attention to the alleged
malpractice
in the arrest that some agents of the Civil Guard practiced on his son Carlos, 37 years old, on September 12 at the gates of his home, which caused him a cardiorespiratory arrest.
The young man died seven days later, on the 19th of that month, after being admitted to the hospital.
Bejarano reported what happened to the courts that same day and since then he has only received a summons for next February 6, he says.
Almost two months later, he knows nothing about the autopsy that would help clarify the causes of his death.
A spokeswoman for the Civil Guard has indicated to this newspaper that the case is judicialized and that it is up to the judicial authority to act on it.
“He practically died in front of the house.
There he stopped breathing, ”explains Bejarano to this newspaper.
His father began to record after the Civil Guard agents had reduced his son with "folding metal defenses", according to the complaint.
The 26 seconds that he has posted on Twitter – where an account has been opened exclusively to publicize what happened – show how two agents struggle with the young man on the ground, one tries to hold his arm and the other immobilizes him by passing his arm to the height of the neck and they call a third party to help him put on the handcuffs.
[The images of the videos in this tweet may offend your sensibilities]
I am Ángel Bejarano Romero, ID 28417098T.
On 09/12/22, my 37-year-old son Carlos was brutally reduced by the Civil Guard at the door of my house and died as a result on the 19th. The videos you see when you see how they brutally reduced him are recorded by me.
pic.twitter.com/vZyi6MkOLq
— Angel (@AngelB1951) November 8, 2022
"My son came that afternoon very upset and aggressive and given the situation we asked 062 for the Civil Guard to come," continues Bejarano.
"When the agents arrived, my son was already out of the house, but he was still excited and he also began to attack the agents," he continues.
According to the complaint filed by the father on September 19, the events unfolded as follows: "My son also violently confronted them and tried to reduce him even with folding metal defenses, they threw him to the ground and compressed his neck and chest. chest, in such a way that as a consequence of this our son Carlos had a cardiorespiratory arrest and was kept alive by hospital means in the ICU until today, in which the doctors have confirmed his death.
In addition to the half-minute video that he has shared on networks, Bejarano recorded another 28-minute video, to which this newspaper has had access, in which it is seen how the agents, as soon as they verify that his son stops breathing, begin to do the cardiorespiratory resuscitation techniques and request that an ambulance be called.
The parents, anguished, explain that Carlos suffers from apnea and that he was a drug user.
"That day he had taken cocaine and something else, that's why he was so aggressive," Bejarano tells this newspaper.
While three agents take turns doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), they ask for a cushion to support her head, another colleague insists after six minutes on the radio that they send an ambulance.
“We reiterate the warning, it is past urgent”, she listens to herself.
Immediately, another civil guard also asks that the Local Police be mobilized to bring a car with a defibrillator "urgently because the ambulance does not arrive."
“The ambulance does not appear, this is not normal, the ambulance, man, we have been there for 10 minutes!”, the agents are heard lamenting.
"There is a defibrillator on the soccer field," you hear.
“I didn't make it,” another uniformed man replies.
After nine and a half minutes, the sirens of the ambulance begin to be heard.
The agents explain to the health worker that they have been in resuscitation for 10 minutes, that the young man suffered from apnea and that the parents had said that he was consuming.
The professional is surprised that he was handcuffed and asks that the handcuffs be removed and also asks about a wound on his face.
"Was it like this?"
The complaint filed by Bejarano and his wife also states that "the necessary medical assistance took a long time to arrive and when they arrived they were not life-supporting."
Carlos was in the ICU of the San Juan de Dios hospital in Bormujos from the afternoon of September 12 until his death on the 19th, with assisted breathing.
No news from the court investigating the facts
The duty court that received the complaint transferred it to the Investigating Court Number 2 of Seville, which almost two months later still does not have the autopsy.
“Just yesterday I called the court to ask about the autopsy and they told me that the coroner had not sent it yet.
It is something very rare because a long time has passed, ”Bejarano laments.
His legal representative, the criminal lawyer and doctor of Law, Luis Romero, emphasizes the anomaly that supposes that "almost two months after our appearance in the case as a private prosecution, he has not even notified us that they have us as individuals He has transferred the file to us, in which the autopsy should supposedly be.”
Romero presented the brief as a private accusation on behalf of Bejarano, his wife and their children on September 28, where the accusation of reckless homicide of the two agents who immobilized Carlos was formalized and since then they have not had any response from the police. trial court investigating the case.
This same Wednesday, Rosales has given instructions to send a complaint to the court so that "in two business days he can transfer the file to us or else we will go to the senior judge."
The lawyer also considers it relevant to understand why the doctors decided to keep Carlos for a week with assisted breathing.
