A group of fathers and mothers confronted, put to flight and helped arrest an individual who, armed with a knife, a turban and shouting “Allah! To the! Allah!”, burst into a playground in the capital Malaga where children played. The National Police is investigating the intentions of this individual after an intervention in which agents of the Local Police and civil guards of the security device of the City of Justice participated.

Police sources confirmed to El Confidencial that the event occurred around 7:50 p.m. this Monday in a children's park located on Hamlet street, in the Teatinos district.. There were some fathers and mothers who were watching their children play when a man “dressed in gray clothes, a turban on his head and a knife in his hand” approached..

The individual began to shout “Allah! To the! Allah!”, Said the sources consulted, who specified that the parents quickly withdrew and protected the little ones for fear of being attacked. They picked up stones and sticks from the ground and confronted the 53-year-old man until they managed to disarm him..

After throwing away the knife, the man fled the place, but was pursued by the parents until they managed to corner him in the City of Justice, which is located nearby.. The aforementioned sources specified that some Civil Guard agents who are part of the building's security device detained the man until a Local Police patrol that had been alerted to what had happened made an appearance..

The agents searched the individual and among his belongings they found a chisel 20 centimeters long.. Once detained, he was taken to the premises of the provincial police station, where agents of the National Police continue with the investigations to try to decipher the intentions of this person..

The aforementioned sources indicated that they were waiting to find out his mental state, and if he presented some type of pathology, since at the time he perpetrated the events he seemed disturbed.

Apparently, it was not the first time that the parents saw him hanging around the playground. He had caught the attention of more than one, not only because he came alone and without any children, but also because of his behavior. “Thanks to the fact that the people who were present acted with determination and managed to disarm him, because we don't know what he would have done,” said one of the sources consulted.