69-year-old driver charged with allegedly intentionally hitting a cyclist Alexander Valverde and two teammates from the Movistar team last Saturday in the Murcia region of Javali Viejo were Civil GuardEfe was told by his lawyer, Arian Santiago, on Tuesday.

The accused, who spent several years in the Basque Country and also worked for some time as an assistant at the Murcia Institute of Forensic Medicine, was released on Monday with the charges brought after testifying before the head of Murcia’s Court of Investigation No. 3. the capital, which imposed the obligation to appear on the 1st and 15th of each month and ordered the withdrawal of a driver’s license and vehicle intervention upon detection of signs of a possible crime against traffic safety, bodily harm and leaving the scene of an accident.

His lawyer on Tuesday insisted there was no intent in the abuse suffered by the three professional cyclists, though he was reluctant to explain the circumstances under which the accident occurred and his client will present his version of the facts. sure – when he emotionally recovers from what happened.

reckless overtaking

The outrage, according to Efe from sources close to the case being investigated by the National Police, occurred around 12:20 in the village of Havali Viejo, when some of the cyclists reproached the driver for reckless overtaking, which put them in danger. observing the obligatory one and a half meter distance in order to pass them along the road.

Hearing them, the defendant braked, reversed and rammed Valverde, who was severely dizzy from the impact, and two of his comrades from behind, after which he fled along the RM-560 road, passing through the Murcian Havali Viejo area.

Hours after the crash, he turned himself in to local police and remained in custody until he appeared in court on Monday morning. “When he has the strength, he will state his version, but now it is soon, because he is mastering what happened, he was detained for 45 hours, and he is a person who takes cancer medication and has some diseases,” the lawyer said. .

Alejandro Valverde, 42, who faces his final season as a professional, was released on the same Saturday evening after remaining under observation at the Virgen de la Arrichaca hospital in Murcia along with another teammate, Pedro Moya.