Halloween in Granada was an excuse for vandals and other lunatics with one man claiming that he had a “mission” to complete involving the strangulation of a woman in her early 80s, bless his cotton socks.

This took place on Calle Ciego de Arjona, which is a side street off the Avenida de La Constitución, in the dark, early hours of the morning following Halloween. A 34-year-old man grabbed an elderly woman by the neck with the intention of strangling her. What had she done to deserve his attention? Her being homeless, was enough, it appears, or she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Policía Local received a call from residents in the area around 01.00h; an elderly woman was trying to fight off heavy-set man who had her on the ground by the neck.

Fortunately, officers were nearby when they got the alert and prised the lunatic off the woman who was by now unconscious. Officers from the Policía Nacional arrested the man and took him into custody, but not before the man had explained that he had been entrusted with a mission, although somewhat incoherently.

Later on it was determined that he had travelled from Alicante and had a return ticket for once the “mission was accomplished.”

As for the 82-year-old woman, who had suffered injuries to her neck as well as cuts, she was taken to hospital. The battered old dear was well known in the area as she slept on the streets and scavenged for food.

Now a politically correct martyr might be offended by my calling the gentleman (who was clearly on speaking terms with God) a “lunatic” rather than perhaps their being righteously upset over a woman in her eighties being throttled, but I share the sentiment of Rhett Butler in Gone with The Wind, when he expressed his parting words to Scarlett.

So, how did the rest of Halloween night go in the city of Granada? Well, with plenty of vandalism, of course. Fire personnel who had to charge around putting out torched rubbish hoppers were attacked with stones and needed a police escort – I was going to write “were stoned” but that could be misinterpreted although not entirely outside the realm of possibilities.

Furthermore, buses on lines Four, Five and Six, were stoned in the Northern Area of the city (Zona Norte) which has the reputation of being a tad naughty at the best of times. Police cars also had stones hurled at them, even the unmarked ones, which says a lot about their being able to pass off unnoticed. And of course, people’s cars were also targeted with spray paint and windows smashed.

But vandalism was not only restricted to the Apache Country of Granada, as fire personnel also had to deal with burning rubbish hoppers on Calle Casería del Cerro and Calle Rodrigo de Triana.

Let’s start shooting hooded, vandalous youths… No wait, we’ll need them to pay out retirement pensions!

(Editorial: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Elderly Woman Attacked, Strangled, Vandals, Rubbish Hoppers, Torched, Pelted with Stones, Fire Personnel, Police, Unmarket Cars

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