Alfredo Perdiguero leaves intensive care with serious injuries
Police sub-inspector Alfredo Perdiguero has left intensive care after being run over in Madrid; his injuries are confirmed as serious. The driver fled without being identified.
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Alfredo Perdiguero leaves intensive care: the hit-and-run remains unsolved[/][SIZE]
Police sub-inspector Alfredo Perdiguero has left intensive care after being run over in Madrid. His injuries are confirmed as serious. The driver fled the scene and, at the time of writing, has not been identified.
This is no ordinary accident. Perdiguero carries a disciplinary record with multiple entries, spent years assigned to a complaints office and had media visibility. In fact, Iker Jiménez had boasted of his friendship with him; even so, the season premiere of Horizonte made no mention of the case. That silence, combined with the absence of a perpetrator, has fuelled suspicions of intent.
Two ways to read the same record[/][SIZE]
Those who distrust the official account see an officer who said what others kept quiet about and whom the system had punished. His critics point to sanctions for spreading messages his superiors deemed false during the pandemic and an incident with a citizen caught on video that ended in a proposed sanction. The case sits between those two versions.
The operational question is more uncomfortable. Madrid has thousands of CCTV cameras, and yet the vehicle does not appear. Either the technology fails, or the will to investigate does. Neither option is cheap for trust in institutions. And trust, in economics, has a market price.
As long as there are no developments, the case has already set a precedent: in a city full of cameras, a driver can run over a sub-inspector and vanish. That needs no comment.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
Police sub-inspector Alfredo Perdiguero has left intensive care after being run over in Madrid. His injuries are confirmed as serious. The driver fled the scene and, at the time of writing, has not been identified.
This is no ordinary accident. Perdiguero carries a disciplinary record with multiple entries, spent years assigned to a complaints office and had media visibility. In fact, Iker Jiménez had boasted of his friendship with him; even so, the season premiere of Horizonte made no mention of the case. That silence, combined with the absence of a perpetrator, has fuelled suspicions of intent.
Two ways to read the same record[/][SIZE]
Those who distrust the official account see an officer who said what others kept quiet about and whom the system had punished. His critics point to sanctions for spreading messages his superiors deemed false during the pandemic and an incident with a citizen caught on video that ended in a proposed sanction. The case sits between those two versions.
The operational question is more uncomfortable. Madrid has thousands of CCTV cameras, and yet the vehicle does not appear. Either the technology fails, or the will to investigate does. Neither option is cheap for trust in institutions. And trust, in economics, has a market price.
As long as there are no developments, the case has already set a precedent: in a city full of cameras, a driver can run over a sub-inspector and vanish. That needs no comment.[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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