The Civil Guard in Ibiza has arrested a woman as the alleged perpetrator of the fire in a house in the municipality in which an elderly man died while his wife was rescued in extremis by a neighbor. The detainee was the partner of the son of the deceased and she has entered provisional prison as a suspect in the fire that ended with serious consequences for the residents.
The Civil Guard suspected from the outset that the fire could have been caused by the virulence of the flames. It took firefighters several hours to put out the fire, which had spread throughout the house. The open investigation led almost from the first moment to the couple of the son of the deceased man. The woman took care of the two elderly people, but shortly before the event disagreements arose in her family and they asked her to leave the home.
The Civil Guard Homicide Group traveled to Eivissa from Palma to carry out the investigations and, with the support of agents from this island, managed to identify the alleged murderer. Investigators checked hours of recordings from various establishments near the site of the fire, where at one point the suspect was identified.
Based on this identification, they were able to track, with various cameras spread over the island, the path that the suspect followed throughout that night. The recordings of hundreds of cameras were viewed until it was possible to verify the route that the suspect had taken, from her home to the burned house.
The woman has entered prison, but the investigation is still open. A search has been carried out at the detainee’s home and the Civil Guard assures in a statement that she hopes to obtain more evidence before she opens a trial. At the moment, she is charged with one crime of homicide and two in the degree of attempt.
The event occurred in the early hours of August 3. The 78-year-old man died as a result of the severity of the fire and her wife managed to save her life because she was rescued by a neighbor, who immediately went to the house to try to help the family. He was able to get the woman out, but he couldn’t help the man, who was in her bedroom.
The conditions of the fire, with great violence from the flames that were also advancing at high speed, prevented the agents from helping the man because there was also very dense smoke that made their tasks difficult. These circumstances led the investigators to the conclusion that it was not an accidental fire, but arson. The extinction work lasted until six in the morning, which gives an idea of ??the violence of the fire. The house was left completely uninhabitable.
