A female nurse from the medical centre in Cartuja, Granada was mugged by a group of young men as she left the home of an out patient in the north of the city, infamous for its high rate of crime.

The delinquents jumped her, putting a flick knife to her neck and then demanded her handbag from her. They also told her that if she screamed, “things would go badly” for her.

Surprisingly, after she handed her possessions over, they gave her back her car keys and mobile telephone before running off. However, upon returning to her car she found that they had smashed the car windows.

The nurse, who has worked at this medical centre for the last seven years, reported what had happened to her to her superiors and made a statement before the police, before going home; she did not turn up for work the next day but is expected to shortly.

Fellow workers at the centre protested in front of the building in solidarity with the victim. Carolina Marcillo, in representation of the Granada Health District, said that this attack had been a one-off occurrence and far from commonplace. She also called for support from the locals of Cartuja and Almanjáyar.

Health workers at the centre reiterated that this kind of attack on their workers is unusual as they have very good relations with local families. It is precisely because they are held in high esteem in this troublesome area of Granada that they are sometimes called in to mediate in arguments amongst neighbours or family relations.

This probably explains why they handed her car keys and telephone back to her.

(News: Cartuja, Granada, Andalucia)