This Wednesday, the Mossos d’Esquadra released Beatriz, a 45-year-old Spanish woman, who was being held in an apartment in Santa Coloma de Farners, in Girona. The victim was tied hand and foot, with zip ties and a handkerchief.
After being rescued, the woman stated that she had been held for more than a month by a friend, María, Spanish like her and 34 years old, whom she met when they both shared a shelter for abused women in Figueres.
The information, provided by journalist Anna Punsí for SER, details how it was a municipal police officer, a resident of the block, who heard a voice behind the door that he thought was a woman asking for help.
The man, a police officer in the neighboring town of Sils, had been carrying out garbage-related management in the block and when he noticed the voices, he approached the door and confirmed that there was someone behind him asking for help.
A property, located in Eixample, at the entrance of the municipality, which is part of the bag of emergency apartments that the Generalitat of Catalonia has in the capital of the La Selva region intended for vulnerable people who pay a social rent for it. low.
The police officer called 112 and a municipal police patrol and the Firefighters went to the building, who descended through the light fixture to access the home, to free the woman.
The victim, who was lying on a mattress on the floor, was alone in the building at the time she was released. After her rescue, she was referred to a health center where she underwent a medical examination and where she remains hospitalized.
The victim took in her alleged kidnapper, a mother of four children, more than a year ago, when she was pregnant with her last child. The woman claimed that her captor had gone to the Santa Caterina hospital in Salt with her four-month-old baby; and that is where she was detained by the Mossos d’Esquadra of the investigation unit of the Santa Coloma de Farners police station who have taken charge of the investigation. The detainee is accused of illegal detention, humiliating treatment, injuries and theft; she stole the victim’s mobile phone and credit card.
The Santa Coloma de Farners City Council issued a statement this afternoon in which it condemns the act of violence and in which it expresses “its absolute rejection” of any type of violence, “especially when the victims are women, minors and vulnerable people.” “.
The mayoress of the municipality, Carme Salamanya, has explained that the General Directorate of Attention to Children and Adolescence (DGAIA) has taken charge of the minor children of the alleged aggressor.
