The Violence Against Women Court 1 of Barcelona, ??acting as a guard, has sent the man arrested on Sunday to pretrial detention without bail for allegedly murdering his partner in the Nou Barris district.
In an order consulted by Europa Press this Tuesday, the judge states that around 1:35 p.m. the man called emergencies “saying that his partner had tried to kill him and that he had killed her” in the apartment they shared.
When the police arrived, they found the woman’s body with nine stab wounds, two fatal in the chest and “another seven, which were unnecessary,” the judge remarks: four in the neck, two in the eyes and one in the back.
The judge has opened the case for an alleged crime of murder and in the order she justifies the choice of this crime based on the unnecessaryness of these last seven injuries, especially those to the eyes, which she affirms must have caused “unnecessary, inhuman suffering, and that In addition, they were not injuries that by themselves would cause death, therefore, they were not necessary for the purpose pursued by the person under investigation.”
The magistrate adds that “there is no doubt” that these injuries were sustained when the victim was still alive, because when the medical services arrived the woman was still alive, although they failed to save her.
Regarding the evidence about the man, the judge states that it has been proven that they were the only two people in the house and that he himself called 911 in a call “in which he blames himself and is the first to participate in the police on event produced, even though he thought she was dead, but she still had vital activity”.
Once arrested at the police station, the man refused to testify, as he also did this Tuesday when he went to court, but the judge says that “he did tell the police that he had used a knife and that he had washed it in the kitchen, after the facts and subsequently placed on the table”.
The judge adds that the policemen who searched the apartment found traces of blood that remained in the sink when washing the knife, and “outright” ruled out that the man acted in defense of an alleged assault by the woman, as he recounted when calling 911. , because a forensic doctor visited him and did not detect any signs of aggression, not even a scratch.
Regarding the reasons for sending him to provisional prison, the judge points out that these are “very serious events”, punishable by 15 years in prison, and believes that the fear of this sentence represents a real flight risk, added to that the man does not have Spanish nationality although he has lived here for 10 years.
For its part, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has reported that there is no legal record between the woman, who was 29 years old, and the man, who is 34.
