Overview

• The stabbing unfolded at around 2 am in Vigo’s A Bouza park after a political discussion between the victim’s partner and a stranger escalated into violence.
• The stranger reappeared with three accomplices and attacked the couple, delivering a knife wound to the victim’s left side.
• Officers from Policía Nacional and Policía Local de Vigo located and detained a man matching the victims’ description near the scene alongside a bloodstained knife.
• The male victim was admitted to hospital with serious wounds and is currently in stable but grave condition.
• The suspect has been charged with attempted homicide and brought before Vigo’s Juzgado de Instrucción número 6, with investigations into the political motives still underway.