Had 33 years old and a young daughter who is already an orphan. This Thursday, after more than three days of struggle between life and death in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Segovia General Hospital, the injuries caused by his companion pushed him to breathe his last.
Resident in Cuéllarwhere the city council has decreed three days of official mourning and the flags are at half-mast, is the second victim of gender violence in Castile and León this year. His name is added to the pain blacklist inaugurated on August 12 Monica, the 49 year old woman that his companion allegedly stabbed to death in his apartment in the Pajarillos district of Valladolid before setting the house on fire.
It was in fact because of the smoke that the neighbors called the firefighters, who went to number 4 Sisón Street to respond to what seemed at first glance to be a house fire. Entering to extinguish the flames of 3rd B, the horror: the body of a woman He was lying with several wounds and a knife stuck in his skin in the chest.
The alleged perpetrator was then already far away. The same afternoon, he was arrested, more than 600 kilometers away, in Vigo. Since then, after having filed, they have been in temporary prison without bail and Mónica’s death at the age of 49 already weighs on his criminal past.
He had also fled the scene which would have ended the life of the last victim of gender-based violence, the 38 across Spain so far in 2024. This time, the 36-year-old wasn’t that far away. Just 10 kilometers away, in Cuéllar, the town of Segovia where the ex-couple, of foreign nationality, had their home and where they were detained by the system made up of several Civil Guard patrols.
A month ago, the court ordered a prohibition order and the ban on communicating by any means with the woman after a complaint of ill-treatment. But this Sunday, October 13, he broke down. Both They were in Arroyo de Cuéllar in the afternoonwhere the woman was beaten so badly that it cost her her life.
With your own handsWithout being sheltered by any roof, he tried to strangle the woman who had been his partner and mother of his daughter. Furthermore, delivered such a collection of blows that the woman was already in critical condition when health services responded to the call for help. She was taken to hospital, where she remained in a coma. Less than four days of fighting in vain for his life.
He is already in temporary prison, communicated and without bail. She also cannot approach her daughter, who is with her maternal grandmother.
In Cuéllar, where he lived, and in Arroyo de Cuéllar, where he received the fatal blow, it was decreed several days of mourning which extends throughout Castile and León, with minutes of silence also convened in the different provincial capitals as a sign of mourning and rejection of this death.
