BARCELONA, Spain – A 58-year-old security guard at the L’Alzina minors’ centre in Palau-Solità i Plegamans died last Thursday while intervening to restrain an inmate, with the events being treated as a workplace accident according to sources close to the case. The worker was participating alongside other colleagues in an intervention involving a minor who was displaying an aggressive attitude, according to the same accounts, and the death occurred in that context, although the exact details of how it unfolded have not yet emerged.
He was a security guard who had been serving at L’Alzina for years, and the Department of Justice has stated that he was much loved at the centre and has conveyed its condolences to the worker’s family.
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The incident occurred last Thursday in the framework of a containment intervention, the set of manoeuvres aimed at subduing a person and preventing them from harming themselves or others, in which several guards participated. The death is classified as a workplace accident, which in legal terms is one suffered by a worker on the occasion of or as a consequence of their professional activity, and this consideration activates the usual channels of notification and, where appropriate, the intervention of the competent labour authority.
Minors’ internment centres are facilities dependent on the regional administration in which judicial internment measures are executed, and they house educational teams and security personnel with action protocols for crisis situations. So far, public information is limited to confirmation of the death, its consideration as a workplace accident and the condolences of the Department of Justice.
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The official report detailing the exact circumstances of the death has not yet emerged, nor has information been provided on the state of the inmate involved, whose identity is preserved because he is a minor. The circumstances of the incident have not been detailed by the sources consulted, who refer to the classification as a workplace accident, and the family of the guard, who had been assigned to L’Alzina for years, has received the condolences of the Department of Justice.
