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🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
0:30.0 | This episode contains strong language. |
0:49.0 | Welcome to the Guardian Longread, showcasing the best long-form journalism covering culture, |
0:54.0 | politics and new thinking. For the text version of this and all our long-weeds, go to thegardin.com |
0:59.0 | for a slash long-weed. |
1:05.0 | Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice |
1:11.0 | by Giles Tremlet. |
1:15.0 | At 11.09 on the 14th of December 2021, a man wearing a black baseball cap and a long |
1:22.0 | ribbon wig rang the bell at the Securitas offices in the Spanish city of Tararona. |
1:29.0 | It was a poor disguise and when he entered the reception area on the first floor, staff quickly |
1:35.0 | recognised Marin El Gen Sabo, a burly 45-year-old security guard who had been on sick leave for the |
1:43.0 | previous six months. |
1:47.0 | Securitas is one of the world's biggest security companies with 345,000 employees worldwide |
1:54.0 | but this local office was nothing fancy. |
1:57.0 | Grey floor tiles, white laminated furniture, corporate advertising on the walls. |
2:02.0 | We help make your world a safer place, red one slogan. |
2:07.0 | In the cluttered main office, Luis Arrico, a 58-year-old junior manager with cropped silver hair |
2:13.0 | and green eyes, was printing out documents. She recognised Sabo's voice but was not alarmed |
2:20.0 | that he had dropped by unexpectedly. He sounded calm as he talked to a colleague in the reception |
2:25.0 | area. She did not know that he was carrying a pistol or that he planned to shoot her. |
2:36.0 | Over the next few minutes, Sabo's voice grew louder as an argument broke out. |
2:41.0 | When Rico opened a security door to see what was going on, Sabo was just a few feet from |
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