Fear in Aragon Street after two hooded men attacked to free a prisoner

The armed robbery of a police van by two hooded men and the escape of the prisoner they helped shocked local residents and shopkeepers. A day after what happened, there are still people who continue with fear in their bodies while life seems to go on in the streets. «I am already suspicious. More and more misfortunes are happening,» says a sales clerk.

The woman was not present when the altercation took place, but fears that similar situations will happen again. «I've been on the island for 22 years and it has always been very quiet, but this summer has been horrible,» she says, noting that there have been several robberies in premises in these streets in recent months. Like other shopkeepers and neighbors, the sales clerk was unaware that prisoners were passing by where she works to go to the dentist: «This only makes me worse».

The owner of a store near the dental clinic saw the prisoner run as he was being chased by an officer. «Here we always see, practically every day, people passing by in handcuffs,» she explains. Her co-worker comments that «they are events that you read about in the news, sometimes in Ses Figueretes, sometimes in Sant Antoni, and now it has been here just around the corner.» «It's already every summer. As so many people come, you don't know what to expect from anyone,» they agree.

On the other hand, the manager of a local who came out with the screams and even saw the hooded man expresses that «everything is still the same». «Here people are still going about their normal lives,» she says, pointing to Aragon Street. The woman affirms that at the time of the assault she did not feel fear either, especially because she did not notice the gun the assailant was carrying. «If I had seen it,» she says, "I would have said, 'Wow, this is dangerous.

Two friends chat on the terrace of a store while sipping a hot coffee. «Today I keep looking to see if a police car appears with some other criminal,» says one of them, with her back to the street and constantly turning her head. The other lives closer to the scene but tries to play it down: "This is our tourism and what it entails. If something has to happen, it will happen.