Edward murdered Protection on June 7, 2022 in a country house in the Valencian town of Alzira, where they had gone to carry out agricultural work and take care of their animals.
Amparo was a happy woman with her chickens and vegetables. According to the investigation, Eduardo, from which he separatedtook advantage of his visit to the orchard that day to find her defenseless and with no way out.
At the time of the crime, the woman was in the henhouse, concentrating on her agricultural work, when her companion quickly entered to stab her several times, especially around the neck and head.
The victim suffered multiple injuries, two of which were fatal. After the murder, the attacker managed to flee to Chellaabout 36 kilometers from Alzira, where he remained hidden for ten days until his arrest by the national police.
Next week, a popular jury will judge Eduardo, the man accused of killing Amparo Montalvá, his romantic partner, with a knife on June 7, 2022, in a country house in Alzira.
The crime shocked the residents of this Valencian town and forced them to deploy a special search device to locate the main suspect.
Sessions
According to the schedule published by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV)the trial will take place in divided sessions between October 21 and 28 at the City of Justice of Valencia.
The court will have to decide whether the man was aware of Amparo’s intentions to end their relationship, which lasted between three and four years, and whether this decision triggered his jealousy.
According to the TSJ of Valencia, “the jury will determine whether on the day of the facts the accused took advantage of the fact that the woman was in the henhouse, focused on agricultural work”, stab her repeatedlynotably to the neck and head, with a kitchen knife, without her being able to defend herself or flee.
The woman suffered multiple injuries, two of which were fatal. After the death, the accused left the weapon next to the body and fled to Chella, where he remained in hiding for ten days.
Eduardo was the main suspect since the discovery of Amparo’s lifeless body and the national police followed his trail.
The man was eventually discovered on his way to the Chella City Council to request food from food bank.
The center employees asked for his ID card and Eduardo quickly fled the scene. Eventually, Chella local police officers gave chase and managed to arrest him after a brief chase.
Eduardo has been in provisional prison since June 2022 and will be transferred next week to Valencia to be tried by a popular jury.
Amparo was the 22nd death due to gender-based violence in 2022.
VioGen System
The province of Valencia is the one that includes the most municipalities within the police surveillance system for victims of gender violence of the Ministry of the Interior, VioGén, with a total of 59 locations.
They are followed by the provinces of Granada (56), Alicante (49), Córdoba and Jaén (38 each), Madrid (37) and Seville (34).
In total, 736 municipalities are part of this police system, including most provincial capitals, according to the Interior.
The town halls of all provinces and autonomous cities are present in this system, with the exception of Catalan and Basque cities. In these two autonomous communities, it is the regional police who manage the protection of victims of gender-based violence.
By signing the agreement with a municipal council, it is established what type of collaboration is assumed in the protection of victims.
The work is divided between National Police, Civil Guard and Council -your local police and officials-. And the percentage of cases that each can control is fixed.
Not all municipalities in the system have local police, but they can offer officers to assist victims. For example, to accompany them to file a complaint or to look after their children while they do so.
The fact that a locality is not present in VioGén does not imply that victims of gender violence in this territory are not protected. Both the National Police and the Civil Guard ensure their protection independently of the participation of the municipal council.
The VioGén system seeks to assess, through a questionnaire given to the victim, the probability of an attacker reoffending, the risk of a woman being attacked again as well as the potential risk of homicide.
Since 2019, it also evaluates the impact of abuse on minors who live in homes where violence is perpetrated against their mothers.
It includes the state security forces and agencies, the Navarre Foral Police, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the judicial and penitentiary systems.
As of October 7, there have been 37 confirmed deaths due to gender-based violence in Spain in 2024, a figure that rises to 1,281 since 2003, when they began to be counted in official statistics.
016 serves all victims of gender-based violence 24 hours a day and in 52 languages.
Also email 016-online@iguadad.gob.es. On WhatsApp in the 600,000,016 and in the online chat on the website of the Government Delegation against Gender-Based Violence.
