Yesterday, a municipal brigade from Esparreguera finished clearing the shoulders of the road known as Puig Street, parallel to the Llobregat River, in the section where a 29-year-old resident of Òdena, the mother of a girl, was abandoned and stabbed to death. who died right there. The homicide group of the southern metropolitan region of the Mossos d’Esquadra yesterday arrested the suspect in the crime since Sunday: the victim’s ex-partner.
The story of what happened late Sunday afternoon on this secondary road especially traveled by cyclists at all hours is horrifying. It was just a few minutes before nine at night when the occupants of a car observed a woman approaching them to ask for help. She was completely stained with blood and almost immediately fell to the ground and lost consciousness.
These same witnesses told the first police officers they spoke to that they saw a man with the woman, who left the area when she approached to ask for help.
The victim was initially assisted by two other witnesses, two nurses, who were performing basic resuscitation maneuvers until the first paramedics arrived in an emergency ambulance, but they could do nothing for his life.
The body had more than a dozen stab wounds, in addition to many others on the hands and forearms caused in a futile attempt to defend himself from his attacker.
Both she and her alleged murderer traveled to that road in the woman’s car. A vehicle that impacted a few meters ahead and was taken by investigators to the scientific police offices for inspection.
The first testimonies alerted 112 and patrols from the municipal police of Esparreguera and Olesa de Montserrat and the Mossos moved to the scene. The case was taken over on Sunday by the Barcelona homicide group because the investigators on duty from the southern metropolitan police region had just arrived at a barracks area in Vilanova i la Geltrú for another crime, a man murdered during a fight.
The investigation was transferred yesterday to the corresponding group and early in the afternoon the suspect was arrested.
So far this year, 36 women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners. If the evidence collected by the Mossos in the last few hours is confirmed, the figure will increase to 37 with the neighbor of Òdena. Each number on that list is a life broken by machismo.