When the agents of the investigation unit and the scientific police of the Mossos d’Esquadra were able to access the first floor of number 4 of Carrer Xile d’Amposta (Montsià) on Easter Monday, they found that it would not be easy to identify the eighth woman murdered in Spain victim of sexist violence. Thais was 34 years old, of Spanish nationality and had two children, although they are not minors who were in his care.
The alleged murderer, Jesús F., 47 years old, dismembered the lifeless body of the victim and distributed several pieces between the apartment where he is believed to have committed the crime and several garbage containers in the same municipality, according to suspicions the investigators. His plan, after ending the life of his ex-partner a week ago: hide the body, make it difficult to identify the victim and prevent the police from discovering it.
A ploy foiled on Monday morning after a friend suspected the crime and reported the alleged murderer to the local police in Amposta. The officers arrested him shortly afterwards on the street, where he was wandering disorientated. He was widely known to the police because of his background.
The man accused of the sexist murder had assaulted Thais several times, with whom he had maintained a torturous romantic relationship. With a history of abuse, the judge had signed a restraining order to prevent him from approaching his ex-partner. Although the restraining order was in effect, apparently they were still seeing each other.
A highly toxic relationship, with constant verbal and also physical fights and problems surrounding drug addiction. The victim had suffered several assaults and even responded to one of the assaults with a knife. a hell
The alleged murderer was living illegally on the first floor of block number 4 on Calle Chile, without electricity, according to several neighbors. In the building he was also well known for bad behavior. They even reported him a month ago after threatening the neighbors to burn down the entire building if they continued to call the police.
“It could be seen coming”, was one of the expressions repeated among the neighborhood yesterday. The accused of killing and dismembering Thais had placed cardboard and a mattress in the main window of his house to prevent prying eyes from discovering his movements from the street. Apparently, none of the neighbors saw or heard anything strange in the last week. Some explain that they were tired of calling the police about fights and shouting in the flat.
The Amposta City Council decreed three days of official mourning yesterday, suspended the public events planned in the Ebrenc municipality and called a minute of silence at seven in the evening in the square in front of the Consistory. Neighbors, acquaintances and friends of Thais expressed their pain and outrage.
The Minister of Equality, AnaRedondo, and the delegate of the Against Gender Violence, Carmen Martínez Perza, expressed in the morning, once again, the “most absolute condemnation and rejection” of the new sexist murder and transferred “all the support ” to relatives and friends of the victim. Both the minister and the delegate ask for “every effort” from the institutions, administrations and society as a whole “to arrive on time and avoid more deaths”.
The Generalitat’s Department of Equality and Feminism also condemned the new feminicide and expressed its condolences to the victim’s family, as well as to the residents of the delta town. Councilor Tània Verge went to the rally in Amposta.
The City Council has called an extraordinary meeting of speakers for today at one in the afternoon. The mayor, Adam Tomàs, also expressed rejection of sexist crime.
The alleged murderer was still at the Mossos d’Esquadra police station yesterday, waiting to testify before the judge. The results of the autopsy, very complex due to the state of the corpse, will help determine how Jesús F. ended Thais’ life.
