National Police officers rescue man dangling from fifth floor in Alicante

National Police officers have rescued a 27-year-old man who was on the verge of falling from a fifth-floor building in Alicante following a relationship breakdown. The incident occurred at around 8:30 am on Monday in a property located in a street close to the Adif railway station.

According to sources close to the investigation, the man discovered his 45-year-old partner, with whom he lived, alongside another man at the address. Following the event, he went to a window sill and threatened to jump into the void. The woman explained to officers that they had previously been involved in an argument. She confirmed that she had not been physically assaulted or threatened by the young man but chose to alert emergency services due to the severity of his emotional state and the clear risk that he might harm himself.

Officers belonging to the Citizen Attention Group (GAC) from the National Police Security Division arrived at the scene and initiated a dialogue with the man. The officers negotiated with him for approximately 40 minutes in an attempt to persuade him to abandon his intention of jumping.

Emergency services were mobilised while officers engaged with the man from inside the property. Firefighters and medical personnel attended the building, with firefighters deploying an anti-suicide cushion in the light well as an additional safety precaution in case of a fall.

Tension mounted critically when the young man suspended himself by his arms from the building’s facade, holding on solely by a clothes horse drying rack. According to the same sources, the support appeared to fracture and show signs of giving way, forcing the present officers into immediate action.

The officers lunged towards him and managed to grab him just in time as he was left practically without any stable support. Thanks to this swift manoeuvre, they succeeded in bringing him to safety, preventing a fall from the fifth floor which would have presented an extreme danger to his life.

Following the rescue, a medical unit treated the man inside the building to perform an initial assessment of his physical and emotional state. He was subsequently transferred to the Sant Joan d’Alacant hospital, where a psychiatric evaluation was scheduled to assess his mental condition and arrange any necessary specialist care.

Sources from the investigation noted that the man is an Algerian national with a police record. His two most recent records include cases of ill-treatment against two other women in 2025 and 2026. These details have been incorporated into the official report, although authorities focused their intervention on protecting the young man’s life and referring him to specialised healthcare services.