A Spanish journalist is in custody following a hit-and-run incident that killed a pedestrian Talented Israeli pianist, 31 years old Haim Tukacinsky) in Paris Square in Jerusalem, on Sunday night. It is suspected that he was driving under the influence and fled the scene after hitting the victim of the accident, an American tourist. Police found and arrested the suspect an hour-and-a-half later as he was parking his car in a parking lot in the Mount Scopus area, according to the Jerusalem police spokesman.
De la Guardia lives in Jerusalem and works for Spanish news website Esglobal, he worked previoulsy for Spanish daily El Paos. The attorneys representing De la Guardia have argued that he was fleeing from three motorcyclists who attacked him, and during his escape he hit the pedestrian.
Attorney Yinon Heiman told Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot: "This person found himself in a Kafkaesque situation. Three motorcyclists attacked him, struck his vehicle and cursed him. He escaped the scene and heartbreakingly, during his escape, a man was hurt. Later he turned himself in to the police. The results of the blood tests to check his alcohol levels have not yet been released."
According to local media, a breathalyzer test detected three times the limit of alcohol allowed. Another attorney representing De la Guardia, Leon Emires told Yediot: "I spoke with him in his mother tongue and he told me about his fear of the three bikers. He thought they were going to kill him and so he escaped."
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