Police officer ruined by Bankia preferential shares stabs retired employee in his home
Police officer ruined by Bankia preferential shares stabs retired employee in his home
A LOCAL Police officer off sick with depression stabbed a retired bank manager who had sold him 300,000 euros of preferential shares which are now worthless.
The accused, who is said to have lost everything after investing his life's savings in the nationalised entity Bankia, went to the former manager's home, a country house just outside Valencia in an area known as La Punta.
He became embroiled in a heated discussion with the victim, which the latter's wife witnessed, before stabbing him twice in the neck.
National Police rushed to the scene at around 18.45hrs on Sunday and found the former Bankia worker bleeding heavily.
His attacker had fled the area but was later arrested.
Due to a delay in the ambulance arriving, police officers took the victim to A&E at La Fe hospital in one of their patrol cars, and he had to undergo emergency surgery.
Shortly before passing out, the victim managed to give the police a description of the man who had stabbed him.
His condition is said to be stable, but doctors do not yet know whether he will have suffered any lasting damage.
The victim, who had retired early from his job as bank manager at Bankia, was the one who had sold the Local Police officer the preferential shares at the outset.
This was not the first time the two had been in confrontation over the matter, which is said to be at the root of the officer's severe depression, but it had not previously ended in violence.
