Ninety-two years old, a revolver, and a neighbor who did not want to give a kiss. That was enough to trigger one of the most unusual incidents recorded in the Spanish press in 2011.
According to the news story published by El Periódico on March 23 of that year, a 92-year-old woman shot at her 53-year-old neighbor after he refused the kiss she was asking him for. The man, 39 years younger than his attacker, ended up being the victim of an altercation that no one in the building would have anticipated. Details about his condition and the legal consequences for the woman were not confirmed in the available records, but the story quickly spread throughout the press at the time.
The case illustrates, with unsettling precision, that determination knows no age. And it raises a question that is difficult to answer seriously: what kind of neighborhood leads someone to cross that line over such a small gesture?
