Arrested after threatening to set himself on fire to "burn the entire mountain and the police" in Alcoy

The National Police have arrested a man in Alcoy (Alicante) for allegedly threatening to “set himself on fire to burn the entire mountain and the agents”.

The man impregnated himself with gasoline and it was his wife who warned that he had not taken his medication for several days and that he had left the house with a gasoline can, a lighter, an ax, and a knife..

The events were recorded on July 26 at the wee hours of the morning and room CIMACC-091 notified the Citizen Attention Group of the National Police Station in Alcoy, as reported by the National Police in a statement..

The woman warned of what had happened “fearing that she could harm someone or herself” and the agents began “quickly” to look for this person who had moved to the vicinity of the Fuente de la Salud in Alcoy with his private vehicle. When I got to the car, there was no one, but there was a note on the windshield that read: “I'm at the Source of Health, I'll wait for you there, dogs”.

From that moment on, the National Police officers and a local police force, who went to the scene in support, adopted the necessary self-protection measures in these cases and began to head towards the Fuente de la Salud where the disappeared person was presumably, while he was they called by name.

The detainee, upon hearing the police shouting his name, replied saying: “Here I am dogs, you will not be left alive”. At that time, the agents located him and visualized. They were able to observe that this person was in a mountainous area with lush vegetation around him and was also impregnated with gasoline all over his body.. The man held with one hand a can with more gasoline and in the other a lighter with which he made gestures to use it and set himself on fire..

The National Police agents, in a quick and coordinated maneuver, managed to distract the man's attention while the other ran up to take advantage of his carelessness and knock him down before he could set himself on fire with the lighter.

In addition, the troops found near the detainee, a large knife and an axe. The detainee was admitted to the Virgen de los Lirios Hospital waiting to be evaluated by the psychiatric service.