Overview
- The attack took place minutes before 7 p.m. on Thursday on San Pedro street in the Deusto neighborhood of Bilbao and prompted calls reporting a fight.
- The 25-year-old victim suffered about ten puncture wounds to the buttock and was taken to Basurto hospital for several stitches.
- Ertzaintza officers located and arrested a 20-year-old man nearby after a search that used the description provided by the injured man.
- The detained man told police he had been threatened with a knife, said he seized the weapon and admitted to inflicting the puncture wounds, and both men received medical attention at the scene.
- The case is in the police diligences phase and the suspect will be placed at the court's disposal; the investigation is being handled by Ertzaintza with medical reports from Osakidetza and the charge reported as assault with a bladed weapon.