Eugen Sabau has been euthanised
(Picture: Handout)A gunman who wounded four before being seriously injured in a police shootout has been euthanised in prison.
Eugen Sabau, known as the ‘Gunslinger of Tarragona’ in Spanish media, shot three of his colleagues at the security services firm where he worked in the northeastern city of Tarragona.
He wounded a police officer while making his escape and barricaded himself in a house with an arsenal of weapons.
A tactical police unit stormed the building, shooting him several times - leaving him a tetraplegic, had one leg amputated, and the wounds caused chronic pain that could not be treated with painkillers due to his fragile state.
Courts allowed Sabau’s assisted death after rejecting several appeals by his victims who argued he had to face justice.
The case even reached Spain’s Constitutional Court, which refused to deliberate on it, saying there had been no violation of fundamental rights.
Spain legalised assisted dying just over a year ago.
Before that, helping someone to end their life had carried a jail term of up to 10 years.
