They fined 89-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease 600 euros for violating quarantine in Spain

MADRID.- The order was to respect imprisonment, and so the police in Villardeciervos, a town in the Spanish community of Castilla y León. And he did so without regard, to the letter, to the point of fining an 89-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease with a fine of 600 euros., who unknowingly disobeyed the officers’ instructions.

The incident, which occurred in 2020 but revealed this Saturday by the newspaper Zamora post office, had as its protagonist a man who was intercepted in the street by the Civil Guard, when a strict quarantine was in place, and urged him to return.

The man came out and when they saw him again, they took him as serious disobedience, which ended up costing him a fine of 600 euros.

“On alert, my husband goes out into the street without my knowledge. When I realize his absence, I look out the window and realize that he is being questioned by agents of the Civil Guard, ”said the wife of the accused of the incident.

“I go out on the public road and I go to the officers to ask if there is a problem with my husband,” she added. She told them that her husband “is very deaf and he does not hear the news., who doesn’t listen to me either because he doesn’t understand what I’m saying and as soon as I neglect myself (sometimes I fall asleep on the sofa watching the novel) he escapes me in the street and stands at the door of another neighbor where the sun is, because at this time of the year we are alone in this place and we do not see anyone ”.

The agents asked for the documentation, took all the data and left. According to the old man’s wife, the man “lives in his world” and “doesn’t understand what you are saying, he laughs and ignores you”.

Then, they received six pages of notification of the file that he is not able to read or understand what is communicated to him by the government sub-delegation. He also didn’t realize that you couldn’t go out for a walk and sunbathe.

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