Justice fines a man who destroyed the Zarzuela fences with pliers and a knife with 1,000 euros

2023-11-29 23:15:40

Saturday night. April 4, 2020. The Spanish population remains locked in their homes due to a state of alarm that seeks to alleviate the effects of a still uncontrollable pandemic. But there is a man who is not at home, but making his way through the security rings of the Zarzuela Palace, residence of the kings, with a pair of tongs, a knife and a parrot’s beak until the Royal Guard stops him a few minutes later. meters from the building. The Justice Department, as elDiario.es has learned, has firmly sentenced him to pay a fine of 1,080 euros for a crime of damage, in addition to paying the almost 4,000 euros more that it cost to repair one of the fences that he destroyed.

The man did not testify at the police station, he did not appear later at the trial, he could not be located and he never explained what led him to try to force his way into one of the most guarded places in the country. The Royal Family did not want to comment on the questions from this newspaper.