The bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez (Madrid, 48 years old) crashed his van into a palm tree on Sunday night in a roundabout located between the municipalities of Alcalá de Guadaíra, Dos Hermanas and Seville, as sources close to the Municipality of Alcalá confirmed to this newspaper. The right-handed man emerged unharmed from the accident, but tested positive in the subsequent alcohol test carried out by the local police officers of the Sevillian town, the first to intervene on the scene.
The accident occurred just before 8.30pm. Sunday evening in the roundabout accessing the Real Club de Golf de Montequinto urbanization, the Dos Hermanas neighborhood where Rivera lives, who last September announced his retirement from the arena after leaving the Sevillian square of Écija behind him.
The first indications are that the bullfighter, son, grandson, great-grandson and brother of bullfighters, lost control of the vehicle and climbed onto the elevated part of the roundabout, knocking down a palm tree. He, for now, has not commented on the incident.
It was the firefighters of Alcalá de Guadaíra who intervened by freeing the vehicle that was trapped in a roundabout after the collision with the palm trees. “There is no need to regret personal damage,” the firefighters reported on X; a publication accompanied by several photographs of the damaged car.
In the early hours of June 30, Paquirri’s son was arrested after being involved in an incident with employees of a McDonald’s in Atocha, Madrid. According to the police report, the bullfighter was “in an evident state of intoxication” and “ignored” when two plainclothes police officers approached him. Rivera Ordóñez was handcuffed by officers at the scene and spent the night in a cell at the Centro police station in the capital. At seven in the morning he was released on charges of resisting authority and disobedience. “I feel the need to clarify that at no time did I participate or participate in any act of aggression against law enforcement,” Cayetano himself explained in a statement posted to his X account on June 30. “I also want to record the respect I have for the Security Forces and Corps, whose work I appreciate and recognize,” he added. The right-hander then filed a complaint for illegal detention.
