The long read: In 2021, a security guard in Spain stormed into his workplace and shot four people. He was caught, badly injured, and a trial was set – but his victims would never get to see him punished
In 2021, a security guard in Spain stormed into his workplace and shot four people. He was caught, badly injured, and a trial was set – but his victims would never get to see him punishedt 11.09am on 14 December 2021, a man wearing a black baseball cap and a long auburn wig rang the bell at the Securitas offices in the Spanish city of Tarragona.
A trail of blood gave Rico away. She looked up as Sabau stood over her. “He smiled,” Rico told me. Then he fired again. The bullet struck her upper thigh, cutting through her bladder and hip. “It hurt so badly, I actually wished I would die,” she recalled. An answer of sorts landed in Bonilla’s inbox at 12.47pm, as she was being questioned by police. It was a 3,500-word email from Sabau, with the subject line: “Happy holidays, you thieving, racist bastards!!” It was copied to Securitas bosses across, including two of his victims, Maestro and Rico. “I don’t want to kill them,” he wrote. “I’m not crazy. I have it all perfectly planned.”
Sabau’s relationship with his employers had fallen apart in January 2013, when – after failing to persuade the company that it owed him money – he sued Securitas for allegedly cheating him out of €5,700 in travel and meal allowances, equivalent to half a year’s salary. Sabau won the case, only to lose on appeal. “My hell started then,” he wrote. From that point on, he embarked on a one-man war against the Swedish multinational.
Sabau’s only release was the shooting range. In 2012, he joined the Jordi Tarragó shooting club, whose dilapidated buildings and pot-holed car park lie off the road to Tarragona’s giant Repsol chemical plant. At the range, Sabau’s conduct was exemplary; he won prizes and offered advice to fellow members. Ever the rules man, his only quarrel came when he accused rivals of cheating when working out their scores. Police officers practised alongside him. No one found him suspicious.
Sabau swung the car on to a farm track 200 metres away, bumped along for a few minutes and pulled up behind a small shed. A neighbour spotted him ducking into bushes. Snipers took up position 150 metres away on the roof of a three-storey farmhouse. Neat rows of almond and olive trees in surrounding fields provided cover as police closed in. By 3pm, they had Sabau surrounded.
It seemed the story was over. Sabau was expected to face trial and receive a long jail sentence – but only if he survived.n Barcelona, Sabau was stabilised, sedated and moved early the next day to a second hospital, where doctors were better equipped to deal with such serious injuries. He had lost a lot of blood. A bullet was buried in one of his shoulder blades, and fragments were spread across his shoulder and a leg.
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