Apparently, 28-year-old, Miguel was an avid sportsman who loved climbing and was a physio-therapist by profession. Furthermore, he leaves behind a young daughter.

His family explained that on the day of the incident, he had gone climbing in Los Vados (Vélez de Benaudalla gorge) after setting off from his home in Córdoba. Later that day, he called his cousin and his mother asking for help. The next thing they knew, he had been killed in Chauchina.

His relatives want to reconstruct what he did that afternoon. They are looking for the people who climbed with him, anyone who might have crossed paths with him on the climb, or upon his arrival in Chauchina.

Above all, they insist that something must have happened to him to make him act violently all of a sudden, because “he wasn’t like that.”

They had learnt that he had allegedly attacked the bus with an axe, although they specify that it would be some smaller, climbing tool, or an ice axe. They also know, from a local who helped him in Chauchina, that Miguel was very agitated, that he thought he was dying, and that he was having hallucinations.

“We want to emphasise the failure to provide assistance by 112. They tell us that when they informed him they were not going to help him, something clicked in his head and he ran away,” explained his brother.

His family say that he never consumed drugs, didn’t suffer from depression, nor had he ever been involved in an altercation. They believe that he might have used something, or somebody slipped him something… but that state of psychosis is not typical of him,” his brother insists.

Editorial comment: It sounds very much like a reaction to narcotics, that he had consumed, willingly or unwittingly. Furthermore, they say that the were surprised by hurtful comments online – here, the Gazette is guilty of having used levity in its reporting on the incident.

(News: Chauchina, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Axe Attack, Bus, Attack, Climber, Psychosis, Narcotic, Uncharacteristic Behaviour

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