The Portuguese suspect of killing four people in a hit-and-run in Spain on Sunday was in preventive detention after being heard by a judge, the Madrid Superior Court of Justice announced.
The 35-year-old man, of Portuguese nationality and resident in Spain, was heard on Tuesday and the court reported that the judge had decreed that he was in preventive detention, without the possibility of being exchanged for the payment of bail.
According to the judicial authorities, the man will be investigated for the death of four people and the attempted murder of another seven in the same outrage.
After the interrogation, during which he decided not to speak, the man was imprisoned in a Madrid jail, according to Spanish media reports on Wednesday.
The Portuguese was arrested this Sunday by the Civil Guard on suspicion of having been hit by a car in Torrejón de Ardoz, in the Community of Madrid, after having fled the place, with two minor children, of Spanish nationality, inside the car .
The man was handed over to the National Police, while the two children, aged 16 and 17, who accompanied him, were handed over to their mother by the authorities.
The hit-and-run occurred around 2 a.m. Sunday, when two families were celebrating a wedding at a restaurant.
According to the first investigations carried out by the police, several people who were not invited and who had disagreements with some of the participants in the celebration went to the place and a confrontation broke out.
During the confrontation, under circumstances that are being investigated, a car with four occupants ran over more than a dozen people.
Four people died and four were seriously injured, said police sources and the 112 emergency service, which sent several teams to the scene.
The dead are a 66-year-old woman, two men aged 68 and 37 and a minor under 17, all Spanish.
Source: TSF
