Don Justo, with a broad forehead and dark hair that contrasts with his bushy white beard, walks with an anguished face. From the neck to the chest hangs a sign with a message that, in a torn manner, attracts the attention of those who cross it on the street.
“I want to go to jail.” He wrote that on the board. “I want to go to jail,” Justo Márquez requested – and continues to ask.
But Justo does not want to enter the path of illegality, so this entry into a prison takes place.
He did recall that he “served two years in prison for drug problems when he was young, but now he claims to have been ‘clean’ for over thirty years.”
What prompted Justo Márquez to make such a strong request?
The answer is devastating. It is received as a blow to the heart.
Don Justo says he spends 24 hours a day in complete solitude. In addition, at the age of 60 he is diagnosed with cancer, reports the EFE agency and assesses the Diario de Sevilla.
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The illness and loneliness of Don Justo
With the sign on his chest, Justo asks to “voluntarily enter the prison of Alhaurín de la Torre (Málaga).”
Because of his health condition, he told EFE, he is afraid of “being alone” and thinks he would have “companions” in prison.
Cancer is in addition to a long list of diseases. He stated that he has heart problems, depression and anxiety.
Feeling “evicted” by social services and health care, as he reported, he thought about what to do to get company: “I can’t find help anywhere and going to jail is the idea I had, but I don’t want to commit any crime.”
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Don Justo hails from Granada, Spain, and since Monday, September 4, 2023, he began the unusual request.
👨🏻🦳 Justo Márquez, a 60-year-old from Granada suffering from cancer, has asked to enter a prison voluntarily because he is afraid of ‘being alone’ because of his health condition and would have colleagues in prison who could ‘ serve and help’.#MCN #news pic.twitter.com/CulHBP1hTH
— MCN Global Communication (@MCN_ComGlobal) September 5, 2023
In the Diario de Sevilla they published that the 60-year-old was able to talk to the prison director, “who has denied him the opportunity to enter the prison voluntarily without having committed a crime.”
Don Justo, who has lived in Nerja, Malaga, said he has five children. No one has seen him “months ago”.
Justo Márquez will still be seen near the prison complex. If his illness worsens in prison, he believes they will help him, that they can help and help him, he told EFE.
Sometimes Don Justo’s sign becomes a painful protest. Time passes and “I want to go to jail” bears the enormous weight of loneliness in five words. (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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