The homicide group of the Mossos d’Esquadra of the northern metropolitan police region arrested a 44-year-old woman on July 13, accused of killing her roommate in Ripollet, as El País reported this Thursday and they have confirmed police sources.
The accused, who is currently in preventive detention, aspired to become a police officer for the Generalitat and in fact was preparing at an academy and in the search of her home the books that applicants study to prepare for the exams were found. It took investigators more than three months to arrest her for the crime, which was committed on April 7, in the victim’s apartment, with whom she had had a romantic relationship in the past and with whom she had been living for a couple of months. . The agents, under the supervision of the investigating court number 7 of Cerdanyola del Vallès, are investigating her for other crimes. Specifically, alleged abuse of ex-partners and other violent episodes involving men and women.
It was the detainee herself who alerted 112 of the death of her roommate and in fact was present when the first citizen security patrols arrived and later the investigative police from the homicide group and the scientist. At first, the possibility was raised that it could be a suicide. Hence, the Mossos d’Esquadra communications office did not initially report the death, since by protocol they do release a statement about violent deaths, but not suicides. In any case, once it was resolved that it was not a suicide, but rather a murder, there was no information about the woman’s arrest, nor about the development of the investigation, now advanced by El País.
The person under investigation denies her participation in the crime, according to sources close to the defense, who also assure that she has no pending cases nor are there any previous complaints against her. She also has no criminal record. “Her comments were contradictory,” sources in the case indicate, regarding the different occasions on which the suspect was interrogated, which she has not yet formally declared as under investigation in court. The Mossos d’Esquadra needed more than three months to gather enough evidence to arrest her. They did so on July 13, and the investigating court ordered her entry into preventive detention, where she remains, awaiting the progress of the case, which is still open and in which the Catalan police continue to be involved.
