Borja Rial is already behind bars. A court in Vigo sent him to provisional prison without bail this Sunday. to the individual who doused her ex-partner with gasoline and set him on fire. Rial, 41, a resident of Gondomar (Pontevedra), is being investigated for attempted murder. They had been dating for more than five years, but separated before the summer.
The events occurred on Saturday morning. The man went to the victim’s home, on the Valladares highway, in the town of Olívic. He waited at the door and when he saw her leaving the house to go to work, he poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. The woman managed to put out the flames herself and it was her screams that alerted her relatives.
The victim was evacuated to Povisa Hospital, in Vigo, with burns affecting 35% of his body. Yesterday, he remained in the center’s intensive care unit (ICU). Her name is Yohanna Comesaña, 29 years old, and she runs a cafeteria in the neighborhood.
After the brutal attack, which the judge provisionally classified as attempted murder, the individual left the victims lying around and went to a nearby bar. In this establishment, he was located and detained. According to sources from the Government Sub-delegation in Pontevedra, Borja Rial tried to attack the police officers who arrested him with a glass beer bottle.
After spending the night in the police headquarters, the agents transferred Borja Rial this Sunday to the Court of Instruction number 1 of Vigo. The man, in court, preferred to remain silent, taking advantage of his right not to testify, as reported by the High Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG). It was this court that ordered his preventive imprisonment. The case will now be brought before the Vigo Court for Violence against Women.
The name of Borja Rial was already in the police files. According to the sources of the investigation, this resident of Gondomar, a town located about 25 kilometers from Vigo, He had a criminal record for illegal possession of weapons. But in his biography there is more than one dark episode.
In 2010, the Civil Guard opened an investigation into the death of a young woman after being shot in her home in Gondomar. And it arrested her boyfriend at the time, Borja Rial, who was about 27 years old at the time. The young woman was found dead, shot in the temple. in the room of his house. The case was classified as a suicide.
