The Civil Guard arrested the ex-spouse of Estela Blach, the 36-year-old woman murdered last Friday in Baiona (Pontevedra), as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of gender violence. Since April, the man had been the subject of a restraining order that prevented him from coming within 200 meters of the victim, who appeared in the VioGén tracking system as a medium-risk case.
It was the man now detained who, at dawn on Friday, called the 112 emergency service to raise the alarm. He then claimed to have found Estela at the door of his house, so he covered her with a blanket and took her into the house before notifying the paramedics. When help arrived, he ran away shouting that he was not going to “eat that brown guy”.
The autopsy confirmed that Estela’s cause of death was due to blows to the head. La Xunta, in the words of its president, Alfonso Rueda, promised that it would make “all care and psychological support resources” available to the deceased, a minor.
After the minute of silence requested Monday at the Government Sub-delegation in Pontevedra, Lieutenant Colonel Óscar Graña, acting head of the Civil Guard command of the province, stressed that investigators believed that the suspect had not not far from the parish of Belesar where the events took place. occurred. “We are searching the area and intensifying the search in this area. He knows this area well and we think he should be there,” he noted. However, it was not until early Thursday that the sub-delegation confirmed the arrest.
