Giles Tremlett in Madrid
and Karen McVeigh
Fri 13 May 2011 15.09 EDT
"Security guards rushed from the shop where he'd been, chased him across the road and by this time he was pinned to the floor. By this time he was empty-handed and was on the other side of the road."
"The security and the police had to hold people off – they were queueing up – they were trying basically to kick the hell out of the guy."
Los Cristianos has a large expat British community.
A witness told the radio broadcaster Cadena Ser that he saw the man drop the head on the pavement after coming out of the shop.
"I parked my car and saw a man running out with something bloody in his hands and a security guard chasing him. He threw it to the ground. It almost hit me.
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