Police officer who denounced Ceuta situation hit by car, in ICU

Perdiguero, run over on his way home from work: seven broken ribs

With an injury report that seems more typical of an ambush than an accident, National Police Subinspector Alfredo Perdiguero remains in the ICU at Madrid's 12 de Octubre Hospital. It peine on August 22: a car ran him over as he was returning from work. The toll, according to information shared by his sister Lola on X, is seven broken ribs and four damaged vertebrae. He is conscious, but his injuries will require months of recovery.

What is known and what is not being said about the hit-and-run

The news, published by Libertad Digital, provides no details about the vehicle or the driver. No arrests have been reported either. The paradox is inevitable: the same state that automatically detects a polluting car or a badly placed beacon cannot find, or does not say it finds, the perpetrator of a hit-and-run that sent a police officer to the ICU. The contrast fuels all interpretations.

Some recall that Perdiguero was not an anonymous officer: days earlier he had denounced the situation in Ceuta in a video, in a testimony whose most cited moment is at minute 7:45. From there to suspecting that the hit-and-run was a message is a step many take without a safety net. But there is not a single public proof of intent. The simplest hypothesis—a traffic accident—remains the most likely until the investigation says otherwise.

The noise from previous cases

Skepticism does not arise only from this incident. In the background noise, uncomfortable references appear: the police officer linked to the GAL case who died in a strange motorcycle accident, the investigation of the Vidal Cuadras attack, or the long history of matters in which the official version never quite fit. Those precedents prove nothing about Perdiguero, but they explain why part of the public distrusts the initial account.

The timing coinciding with tension in Ceuta and the lack of official communication turn the case into a perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories. The problem for institutional credibility is not that suspects exist but that silence leaves a void that fills itself. Every day without an answer, the accident seems more deliberately strange.

The disconcerting fact: in the midst of an era of cameras, license plate recognition, and geolocation, a hit-and-run against a police officer who had become inconvenient still has no known perpetrator. At this point, Perdiguero's CT scan is the only evidence that admits no discussion.