A Reus court has charged eleven police officers who participated in the neutralization of the Tarragona gunman with injuries. As the newspaper El País has reported, the judge has accepted for processing the complaint filed by the sister of Eugen Saban, the Tarragona gunman who in December 2021 spread panic by shooting three employees at the Securitas Direct headquarters and He then barricaded himself in a farmhouse in Riudoms, exchanging shots with the Mossos d’Esquadra. As a result of the injuries he received, his leg had to be amputated and he was bedridden as a quadriplegic, which is why he requested euthanasia and it was granted. In August 2023, Eugene Sabau became the first Spanish prisoner to receive euthanasia.
The gunman’s sister, Eugenia Ciocan, filed a complaint against the agents who left her brother seriously injured, considering that their actions could have been disproportionate. “Eugen Sabau was seriously injured, his injuries were such that he ended up in quadriplegia that condemned him to a life in which he would never be able to take care of himself and suffering incurable pain, which led him to request euthanasia,” he points out. the complaint “So the police action must be investigated because it was “disproportionate”, ditch. To this end, they point out that if the gunman “had been wounded in a leg or hand” or the Mossos had advocated for a “peaceful resolution” of the facts, they would refrain from filing the complaint.
After shooting the three Securitas Direct employees, Sabau sent an email in which he warned: “If the police corner me and I have hostages, things will end badly for them. They are not going to catch me alive. I will shoot myself in the head.” “I’m not afraid of prison or death. I have no family and I have nothing to lose.” After opening fire on his former co-workers, whom he also pointed out in the email, he fled aboard a Citroen XSara until at a roundabout he ran into some police officers who tried to discharge him. Sabau shot them and an agent was wounded in the arm. According to the complaint, the gunman had raised his hands but when he heard a gunshot he became scared and fled the scene. This version was allegedly expressed to her sister and her husband in the hospital, even though she wrote in the email that she had no family. He then barricaded himself in a farmhouse in Riudoms where he ended up being neutralized by the Special Interventions Group of the Mossos.
Lawyer José Antonio Bitos, from the USPAC union, which represents the agents, considers that their actions were “textbook because they managed to keep him alive. “He himself had said that he was willing to die and had shot at his companions to kill them.” From the USPAC union they point out that “the performance was perfect, without any type of blemish, and so meritorious that it managed to end with the arrest of the attacker alive and no colleague injured.” The three Securitas employees and a police officer, who were injured by Sagau’s shots, regretted that the gunman submitted to euthanasia before being brought to justice.
