Mental illness behind assault yesterday on policeman in Los Cristianos

[Janet]

At some point the authorities are going to have to face up to the problem of mental illness in the community, not least since it seems to be increasing with the rise in numbers of people suffering economic difficulties and even homelessness. We have an all-too-vivid instance of the horrors such mental problems can cause in Deyan Deyanov, sentenced only yesterday to twenty years, and yesterday too, a policeman was assaulted in Los Cristianos by a Polish man said to be suffering "diminished responsibility".

The policeman is fine, and detail is still sketchy, but it is confirmed that the assault involved the man trying to grab the officer's gun. He is now in custody, and after being processed by the Arona Courts and medically examined, was transferred to Candelaria hospital's psychiatric unit for formal diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Let's hope it is more successful this time than it was in Deyanov's case. In my opinion, this is something we need to begin moving up the priority ladder, and bring up, whenever we are asked by the Canarian authorities, the consulate, or whoever, as an issue of high importance and great concern. JA

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Pity they don't just deport all the nutcases living rough in the Tenerife sunshine.  They should ship them home and not allow them to return.

[Briz]

Pity they don't just deport all the nutcases living rough in the Tenerife sunshine.  They should ship them home and not allow them to return.

Is it only the "nutcases" who are living rough? 

A Canarian chap explained to me that all the Islands problems stem from tourists and foreigners does this mean that he's as daft as I thought he was?

[Janet]

not daft, just as xenophobic as many of them are ... 

[Guanche]

Is it only the "nutcases" who are living rough? 

A Canarian chap explained to me that all the Islands problems stem from tourists and foreigners does this mean that he's as daft as I thought he was?

Woe betide the Spanish man that says that to me! Yes Briz a delusional Francista no doubt!

[Perikles]

A Canarian chap explained to me that all the Islands problems stem from tourists and foreigners does this mean that he's as daft as I thought he was?

I've heard the same shite from nationalist Welshmen. Insular morons are the same the world over.

[Janet]

A Canarian chap explained to me that all the Islands problems stem from tourists and foreigners...

Next time you see him, ask him about the Arona lifeguards, whose "problem" at the moment is because of Canarian politicians, Canarian businesses, Canarian ineptitude and Canarian corruption ... or is that the fault of the tourists too because without them they wouldn't need lifeguards? Do Canarians not need them? Might ask, if so, why there weren't any Canarians in Spain's Olympic swimming contingent ...

god this sort of moron angers me, wherever one finds them.