Overview

• An off-duty Marbella local police officer was assaulted during a mobile‑phone robbery near the Feria de Málaga around 2:50 a.m. on August 22 on Avenida Ortega y Gasset.
• The aggressor in the Feria incident was subdued at the scene by a Málaga local police patrol and taken into custody.
• The injured officer was taken to Hospital Clínico Universitario with a lacerated eyelid requiring stitches and multiple contusions to the face and body.
• Separately, a man armed with an axe damaged seven Policía Nacional vehicles outside the Vélez‑Málaga station in Torre del Mar in the early hours of August 19 and was detained without resistance.
• Police reports describe the axe suspect as a repeat offender recently released on charges, and authorities have not clarified the motive in either case or whether the injured officer was the robbery victim or an intervening witness.