Madrid hit-and-run suspects not invited to wedding

The 35-year-old Portuguese accused of fatally hitting four people on the outskirts of Madrid this Sunday was not invited to the wedding party.

The man, Mikael da Silva Montoya, who was identified by the Spanish Civil Guard along with his younger children 50 kilometers from Torrejon, was invited to a religious ceremony, but suspended from the reception, the newspaper writes. World🇧🇷

According to some family members cited by the publication, the nephew had a relationship with the bride at one time, so the groom’s family decided not to invite them.

The suspect was in the church with his two children and nephew, but he knew in advance that they would not be able to attend the party, which took place in the restaurant. He Rancho Torrejonwhere 250 people attended. Despite this, the Portuguese-born man and his family will move to the location around midnight to present the gift to the couple. There were several tense moments in the restaurant when the men willingly stepped outside. Attacks began on the street. The men allegedly quarreled with the groom’s relatives and began to attack. The Portuguese citizen left the restaurant, went to the car and waited inside.

Around 2:30 (01:30 in Lisbon) the relatives of the bride and groom began to disperse. It was at this moment that the suspect rammed the people who were at the door of the restaurant.

Police rule out man responsible for hit-and-run that killed four

Spanish police rule out a fugitive in a case of a four-person fatal hit-and-run on Sunday in the Madrid area by a Portuguese man already in custody, according to police sources cited by the EFE news agency.

According to information published by the Spanish press on Sunday, citing sources in the Spanish Civil Guard, in addition to the detained Portuguese who was driving, in Torrejon de Ardoz, on the outskirts of Madrid, four people were knocked down, another 18 people. -year-old man, the driver’s nephew, was also in the car and fled.

However, this Monday, the Spanish National Police, which has since been referred to the case, ruled out the involvement of the driver’s nephew in the hit-and-run, as an investigation carried out in the meantime concluded that, according to police sources cited by news agency EFE, he was not in the car. .

The Portuguese man was detained by the Guardia Civil on Sunday on suspicion of being hit by a fatal car after he fled the scene with two minor children in the car.

The man was handed over to the National Police, and two minor children, aged 16 and 17, who accompanied him, were handed over by the authorities to their mother.

According to the same information released this Monday by EFE, both the man and the children are Portuguese, but a source at the Portuguese embassy in Madrid told Lusa that the detainee has Portuguese papers and the minors have Spanish ones.

The Gypsy Secretariat Foundation, a Spanish organization, this Monday denounced the trampling and asked that the ethnicity of those involved in such activities not be mentioned.

“We strongly condemn yesterday’s murder of four people. [domingo] in Torrejon de Ardoz, we sympathize with the families of the victims and ask the media to adequately interpret these facts, avoiding the mention of ethnicity in such events, ”the foundation said in a message posted on social networks.