The story behind every abused woman is different, no matter how similar her hell may be. Even, as in the case in question, the desperation to escape her tormentor can lead her to want to jump into the void, from the fourth floor and end her life, to escape a life that is not life. And all this happens when the protective springs have not worked as they should.
The Protection and Reaction Unit (UPR) of the National Police was patrolling the Usera-Villaverde area at dawn on September 14, around 3:10 in the morning, monitoring the possible presence of Latin gangs, very common in these neighborhoods, at the time of its commissioning. by 091 because at the Santoña intersection an individual threatened his partner with a knife. The victim, desperate, was hanging from the window sill and demanding that the police come. I was on the window sill.
A first indication of Usera went there, hearing the screams of the woman and the man. When they arrived, the agents began to talk to her, they asked her name to reassure her and they called Samur and the Firefighters, in case she was thrown out of the window.
While an officer asked him to go inside, his companion went to the house, where the last detainee, Marcelino Augusto Amarante, 60, born in the Dominican Republic but of Spanish nationality, opened the door. They chained him.
At the same time and while they were talking to the woman from outside, another police officer approached her from behind and, just as she was about to throw herself onto the asphalt, he managed to grab her hand and save her life. “I can’t take it anymore, I’m sick of him mistreating me. Today he has already hit me, threatened me with a knife and raped me.” The abuse was frequent, so much so that three weeks ago, in a quick trial, the woman was denied a protection order. The girl is barely 19 years old and is from Paraguay. There were two other women in the apartment, witnesses to what happened.
The action of these agents was so heroic that the chief commissioner of the municipal police of Villaverde herself sent a letter to congratulate the agents of the national police in office for their work. When they arrived, the officer was holding the hand of the young woman, already hanging from the facade and whose feet were resting on the awning of the lower floor, a second from death.
