Raquel, the woman found dead in her home in Villalbilla, Madrid, was wearing dead for several days and surrounded by pills when the police entered the house, as confirmed by the sources of the investigation. Likewise, they emphasize that the husband, who was admitted to prisonreported to the Civil Guard that his wife had disappeared after going to spend a few days at her mother’s house in Yuncos (Toledo), and when He saw the police deployment near his home, he tried to flee.
The woman was found in a soundproof room, it is a space “of reduced dimensions, a kind of altar”, according to sources explaining to LaSexta. Likewise, they add that it is “a type of installation to make rite or offering“, and it was in “this small space where the corpse appeared surrounded by the remains of thermoformed blister packs of medicines that it appears he could have consumed.” However, they specify that in “the absence of results from the toxicological report, the cause of death may be linked to this intake“, since there is no trace of violence.
Regarding the altar, this media confirmed that the couple were volunteers from Hare Krishna. And although he is of Spanish nationality, They were followers of this Hindu congregationbut they hadn’t been there since December. In fact, in the city they were called “those who pray”.
A fake disappearance story
Regarding the story of the disappearance, the investigators, after finding the lifeless body of Raquel BL, 54 years old, They determined that it was false. and which led to his arrest and subsequent prosecution. In his complaint, the suspect stated that his wife left the marital home, located on Avenida del Romero in Villalbilla (Madrid), around 9:30 a.m. on August 31, with only a small backpack.
He headed towards Yuncos, where his mother resides, on the occasion of the municipal festivals, and he did it in his car, a dark blue Toyota, sources close to the investigation informed EFE. That same day, around 11:30 a.m., the complainant said, the woman contacted him by phone to inform him that she had already arrived in the city of Toledo and had left her cell phone charger.
He asked her to turn off the device to try to save the battery, he insisted, but the last time she complained On September 3, he assured that he had not received a response. from his wife since that call three days earlier, although he had tried to contact her several times and through various means. Your last connection to WhatsApp said: It was September 1st at 11:00 am, one day after your call.
The man claims to have already attempted suicide
In his complaint, the man also stated that his wife He had attempted suicide last May by ingesting around sixty antidepressant tablets. for which he was admitted for a week to the hospital of Alcalá de Henares. He also alerted the agents of another suicide attempt that he had made about three years ago, according to the aforementioned sources.
Once the complaint was received, the Civil Guard investigators opened an investigation and requested a court order to inspect the marital home. They got it last Sunday and inside the house they found it andThe lifeless body of the missing woman, with signs indicating that it has been in this state for several days.
According to the preliminary autopsy report, the body does not show any signs of external violence, but the agents are waiting for the toxicological report to determine the nature of the death. The government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, stressed that one of the main hypotheses is that the woman died because of medication. There were no previous complaints of gender-based violence and neither the deceased nor the arrested person were registered in the VioGé system.n. They also had no children together, according to initial reports.
Entered into pretrial detention without bail
The court of Alcalá de Henares ordered him to go to prison communicated provisionally and without guarantee of the detainee. The president of the investigating court number 6 of the municipality of Madrid, who was on duty on Wednesday afternoon, accuses him a crime of homicide or incitement to suicideamong others, was reported by the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM).
However, the criminal qualification is initial and could evolve as the judicial investigation progresses and will be derived from the procedures conducted as part of the investigation of the case. In his statement before the judge, the accused He denied causing his wife’s death but the magistrate said there was sufficient evidence. of the crime of ordering his entry into provisional prison with notice and without bail. It is expected that the magistrate will recuse himself from the Court Number 1 of Violence against Women of Alcalá de Henares, whose owner initially opened the investigation.
Ways to report
The Ministry of Equality reported that the Government Delegation against Gender Violence He is collecting data to determine if it was a gender-based murder. She would be the fourth victim in Madrid in 2024. Egalité is also investigating as a sexist crime the murder this morning of a 31-year-old woman in Bilbao, found dead inside her home with multiple stab wounds. Her partner, a 34-year-old man, has been arrested. If the sexist nature of both events is confirmed, the number of women murdered at the hands of their partner or ex-partner so far this year would rise to 36 and 1,280 since 2003, when the records began.
016 assists all victims of sexist violence 24/7 and in 53 different languages, as well as the email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es; Assistance is also provided via WhatsApp at the number 600000016, and minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. In case of emergency, you can call 112 or the ANAR Foundation telephone numbers. National Police (091) and Civil Guard (062) And if you can’t call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
