Armed patient forced into psychiatric unit after barricading in his Estepona house

A large police operation was launched last week in Estepona after a forced admission of a mentally aggressive patient.

Officers were requested by the health personnel because the patient was barricaded in a house that had guns inside. 

Last Friday, doctors visited the patient’s home and realized they needed help from a Special Security Operations Group of the Policia Nacional. 

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The elite units of Spanish Policia Nacional are the GOES-forces. They are prepared for extreme danger and risk their lives to arrest hard-core criminals. 

The officers were able to hold the patient inside so that he could be treated by the health services and transported to a psychiatric hospital in the region.

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The guns in the house belonged to the relative of the suspect. 

The Malaga police issued in a statement that the intervention was ‘humanitarian in nature’ and that there were ‘no injuries to be reported’.