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The bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez (Madrid, 48 years previous) crashed his van on Sunday night time in opposition to a palm tree on a roundabout that’s positioned between the municipalities of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Dos Hermanas and Seville, as confirmed to this newspaper by sources near the Alcalá City Council. The right-hander emerged from the incident unhurt.

Although the primary data instructed this newspaper that he examined constructive for alcohol, they later specified that the right-hander refused to undergo that take a look at when the brokers went to his house. The identical municipal sources point out that the Local Police have filed a grievance for disobedience in opposition to the right-hander for refusing to hold out the management, necessary in instances of visitors accidents.

The incident occurred shortly earlier than 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night time within the entry roundabout to the Real Club de Golf de Montequinto urbanization, the Dos Hermanas neighborhood the place Rivera resides, who final September introduced his retirement from the sector after leaving the Sevillian plaza of Écija on his shoulders.

The first indications are that the bullfighter, son, grandson, great-grandson and brother of bullfighters, misplaced management of the car and climbed onto the elevated a part of the roundabout, flattening a palm tree. The bullfighter left the scene of the accident on foot, in accordance with a number of witnesses, and went to his house, the place brokers from the Alcalá de Guadaíra Local Police appeared, point out interlocutors consulted by this newspaper.

After being required to bear a breathalyzer take a look at, he refused and claimed that he was not the one driving the car. This morning, nevertheless, the right-hander went to the Alcalá de Guadaíra Local Police Headquarters to acknowledge that he was certainly accountable for the wheel.

A number of hours after studying in regards to the occasion through which Rivera was concerned, the bullfighter spoke within the journal Hello!, stating that “everything is fine”: “The police came, yes, because it was at the entrance to my neighborhood and it was a few meters from my house.” And he continued: “With the blow I was a little dazed and I went to sit down for a bit. But that’s it! Not positive or anything.” It will not be the one media outlet through which he has spoken. He has additionally spoken on the Telecinco program Just the proper time: “There is no control, therefore, there is no positive. I got into a roundabout and that’s it.”

It was the Alcalá de Guadaíra firefighters who intervened by liberating the car that had been trapped within the roundabout after colliding with the palm bushes. “There is no need to regret personal injuries,” the firefighters’ account in X reported this Monday morning; a publication accompanied by a number of pictures of the broken automotive.

In the early hours of June 30, Paquirri’s son was arrested after being concerned in an incident with the staff of a McDonald’s in Atocha, in Madrid. According to the police report, the bullfighter was “in a clear state of intoxication” and “ignored” when two plainclothes policemen approached him. Rivera Ordóñez was handcuffed by the officers on the premises and spent the night time in a cell on the capital’s Centro police station. At seven within the morning he was launched with prices, accused of against the law of resisting authority and disobedience. “I feel the need to clarify that at no time have I participated in or participated in any act of aggression towards law enforcement agents,” Cayetano himself defined in a press release posted on his X account on June 30. “I also want to record the respect I feel for the Security Forces and Corps, whose work I value and recognize,” he added. The right-hander later filed a grievance for unlawful detention.

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