The National Police have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of a 36-year-old woman in the early hours of last Sunday in a home in the Madrid district of Villaverde, with whom he lived and who was supposedly his partner.
As reported this Monday by the Madrid Police Headquarters, the main hypothesis with which the investigators of Homicide Group VI of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade are working is that it is a case of sexist violence.
The detainee, a 30-year-old man from the Dominican Republic, turned himself in on Sunday night at the Usera-Villaverde district police station and has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of homicide.
According to the investigations carried out so far, the man and the woman would be a couple, although it is still unknown if the aggressor had a history of sexist violence.
The crime occurred around four in the morning on Sunday in a building on Doña Francisquita Street, where the aggressor and his victim, a Spanish woman born in 1987, allegedly lived together.
A person warned that there was an injured woman on the landing of the stairs and, upon arrival, the agents found a woman with numerous stab wounds in the front part of the chest and neck, sources from the investigation explained to Efe. .
The agents began resuscitation maneuvers that were continued shortly after by the Samur troops, who after thirty minutes could only confirm his death.
Initially the victim could not be identified, but it was later determined that she was a 36-year-old woman of Spanish nationality.
The first investigations indicate that the woman had been attacked by the man, she came out injured from one of the floors and went down some stairs until she collapsed on the landing.
If this death is confirmed as a sexist crime, the number of women murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners would rise to 49 so far this year and to 1,233 since 2003, according to data from the Government Delegation against Gender Violence.
016 assists all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 52 different languages, as does the email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es; Assistance is also provided through WhatsApp through the number 600000016, and minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10.
In an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police (091) and Civil Guard (062) telephone numbers and, if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which you can Sends an alert signal to the Police with geolocation.
